US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 9 for "Neuron circuits for spiking neural networks" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,148, issued on June 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neuron circuits for spiking neural networks" was invented by Giovanni Cherubini (Rueschlikon, Switzerland) and Marcel A. Kossel (Reichenburg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neuron circuits are provided for spiking neural network apparatus having multiple such neuron circuits interconnected by links, each associated with a respective weight, for transmission of signals between neuron circuits. A neuron circuit includes a digital transmitter for generating trigger signals, indicating a state of the neuron circuit, on outgoing links ...