US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 2 for "Computational method for feedback in a hierarchical neural network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,172, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computational method for feedback in a hierarchical neural network" was invented by Ahmet S. Ozcan (San Jose, Calif.) and J. Campbell Scott (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Feedback within hierarchical neural networks such as hierarchical temporal memories is provided. In various embodiments, a plurality of input streams is received at a first region of a hierarchical artificial neural network. The plurality of input streams is pooled in the first region. One or more recurrent features are identified in the pooled input stre...