US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on Aug. 25 for "Continual learning methods and systems" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,105, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Continual learning methods and systems" was invented by Gane Pathirannahelage Duvindu Piyasena (Singapore), Siew Kei Lam (Singapore) and Meiqing Wu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continual learning method, comprising: obtaining, for each of a plurality of classes, a mean of each of a plurality of features generated by passing a plurality of training samples to a pre-trained convolutional neural network, and a covariance matrix of the plurality of features, wherein each of the training samples belongs to one of the classes; obtaining ex...