US Patent Issued to NEC on May 5 for "Method and device for controlling firing timing in spiking neural networks" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,860, issued on May 5, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and device for controlling firing timing in spiking neural networks" was invented by Yusuke Sakemi (Tokyo) and Takeo Hosomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computation apparatus that includes a spiking neuron model. A spiking neuron model varies an index value of a signal output based on an input condition of a signal during an input time interval and outputs, based on the index value, a signal during an output time interval that starts after the input time interval ends."

The patent was filed on July 25, 2022, under Application No. 17/872,118.

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