US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 14 for "Techniques for modifying and training a neural network" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,921, issued on April 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for modifying and training a neural network" was invented by Wentao Zhu (Bethesda, Md.), Daguang Xu (Potomac, Md.), Can Zhao (Rockville, Md.), Ziyue Xu (Reston, Va.) and Holger Reinhard Roth (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are described herein to speed up inferencing in a neural network by copying output from one layer of the neural network to another computing resource based on dependencies among layers in the network. In at least one embodiment, a processor comprising one or more circuits cau...