ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,978, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Horizontal and vertical assertions for validation of neuromorphic hardware" was invented by Alexander Andreopoulos (San Jose, Calif.), Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.), Carmelo Di Nolfo (San Jose, Calif.), Myron D. Flickner (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Stephen Cassidy (Austin, Texas), Brian Seisho Taba (San Jose, Calif.), Pallab Datta (San Jose, Calif.), Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Simulation and validation of neural network systems is provided. In various embodi...