US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 7 for "Neural network accelerator output ranking" (Texas, New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,682, issued on July 7, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neural network accelerator output ranking" was invented by Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas), Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, Calif.), John Vernon Arthur (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Stephen Cassidy (Austin, Texas), Pallab Datta (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Vincent DeBole (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Steven Kyle Esser (San Jose, Calif.) and Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural network accelerator output ranking is provided. In various embodiments, a system comprises a data memory; a memory controller configured to acce...