ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,944, issued on March 3, was assigned to Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Low latency interrupt alerts for artificial neural network systems and methods in data stream processing" was invented by Ronald L. Cline (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided for providing neural networks with increased efficiency. In one example, a system includes a first artificial neural network (ANN), a second ANN, and a logic device. The first ANN is configured to receive a first plurality of data inputs associated with a data stream and process the first data inputs to generate a first inference ou...