US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Block transfer of neuron output values through data memory for neurosynaptic processors" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,961, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Block transfer of neuron output values through data memory for neurosynaptic processors" was invented by John V. Arthur (Mountain View, Calif.), Pallab Datta (San Jose, Calif.), Steven K. Esser (San Jose, Calif.), Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Block transfer of neuron output values through data memory for neurosynaptic processors is provided, which in some embodiments includes time-multiplexing. A neurosynaptic core is adapted to apply a plurality of synaptic weights to a...