US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 3 for "Dithered quantization of parameters during training with a machine learning tool" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,962, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dithered quantization of parameters during training with a machine learning tool" was invented by Thomas M. Annau (San Carlos, Calif.), Haishan Zhu (Redmond, Wash.), Daniel Lo (Bothell, Wash.) and Eric S. Chung (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning tool uses dithered quantization of parameters during training of a machine learning model such as a neural network. The machine learning tool receives training data and initializes certain parameters of the machine learning model (e.g., weights for connections betwe...