US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 3 for "Neuromorphic chip for updating precise synaptic weight values" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,860, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neuromorphic chip for updating precise synaptic weight values" was invented by Atsuya Okazaki (Setagaya-ku, Japan), Masatoshi Ishii (Yokohama, Japan), Junka Okazawa (Yamashina-ku, Japan), Kohji Hosokawa (Ohtsu, Japan) and Takayuki Osogami (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neuromorphic chip includes synaptic cells including respective resistive devices, axon lines, dendrite lines and switches. The synaptic cells are connected to the axon lines and dendrite lines to form a crossbar array. The axon lines are configured to receive i...