US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Low-latency time-encoded spiking neural network" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,012, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Low-latency time-encoded spiking neural network" 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: "A method of executing a time-encoded spiking neural network (tSNN) that includes configuring an electronic circuit connecting pairs of neurons of the tSNN, wherein each pair of the pairs of neurons connects a sender neuron to a receiver neuron through parallel channels, and operating the electronic circuit at an actual clock rate corresponding to actual t...