ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,416, issued on July 21, was assigned to Khalifa University of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Approximate computing and data reuse architectures for AI edge devices" was invented by Mohammed F. Tolba (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Hani Saleh (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Mahmoud Al-Qutayri (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Baker Mohammad (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can be used to reduce the memory storage and energy used by deep neural networks. The method can include determining the weights associated with the deep neural network. An input feature m...