ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,577, issued on April 14, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Neuron core with time-embedded floating point arithmetic" was invented by Jong Kil Park (Seoul, South Korea), In Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Su Youn Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Keuk Park (Seoul, South Korea), Joon Young Kwak (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Wook Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yeon Joo Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of operating a neuron in a neuromorphic system. The method includes evaluating a membrane potential value at a corresponding time when receiving an input spik...