ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,622, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neuronal activity modulation of artificial neural networks" was invented by Thomas Ortner (Zurich), Ayush Garg (Delhi, India), Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak (Kilchberg, Switzerland), George Andrei Saon (Stamford, Conn.) and Angeliki Pantazi (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques that facilitate neuronal activity modulation of artificial neural networks are provided. In various embodiments, an artificial neural network can comprise a set of base neuron populations that collectively generate, during an infer...