US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 2 for "Weight repetition on RPU crossbar arrays" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,250, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Weight repetition on RPU crossbar arrays" was invented by Malte Johannes Rasch (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Tayfun Gokmen (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for artificial neural network training. The method includes storing weight values in an array of resistive processing unit (RPU) devices, wherein the array of RPU devices represents a weight matrix, defining the weight matrix to have an output dimension that is smaller than the input dimension such that the weight matrix has a rectangular configuration, ...