ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,409, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Neuromorphic spike integrator apparatus" was invented by Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Angeliki Pantazi (Thalwil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus that includes a neuromorphic spike integrator apparatus for neural networks. The apparatus receives at least one input signal encoding information in arrival time of the input signal at the apparatus. The received signal is weighted with a weight value corresponding to the arrival time. The weighted received signal ...