ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,857, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recurrent neural network cell activation to perform a plurality of operations in a single invocation" was invented by Cedric Lichtenau (Stuttgart, Germany), Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Laith M. AlBarakat (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Simon Weishaupt (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instruction to perform a recurrent neural network cell activation is executed. The executing includes performing a plurality of operations of the recurrent neural network cell activation to provide a result of the recurrent neural...