US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 28 for "Partial neural network activation" (New York, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,701, issued on July 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Partial neural network activation" was invented by Jorge Albericio Latorre (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Michael Ranzinger (Park City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform inferencing with neural networks. In at least one embodiment, portions of one or more neural networks are selected for use in inferencing based, at least in part, on information to be inferenced by the one or more neural networks."

The patent was filed on June 2, 2023, under Application No. 18/205,204.

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