US Patent Issued to IRIDA LABS on March 31 for "Parsimonious inference on convolutional neural networks" (Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,777, issued on March 31, was assigned to IRIDA LABS S.A. (Patras, Greece).

"Parsimonious inference on convolutional neural networks" was invented by Ilias Theodorakopoulos (Aigio, Greece), Vassileios Pothos (Patras, Greece), Dimitris Kastaniotis (Athens, Greece) and Nikos Fragoulis (Patras, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system incorporates a new learning module, the Learning Kernel Activation Module (LKAM), at least serving the purpose of enforcing the utilization of less convolutional kernels by learning kernel activation rules and by actually controlling the engagement of various computing elements: The exemp...