US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 23 for "Removing neural network layers" (Polish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,432, issued on June 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Removing neural network layers" was invented by Slawomir Kierat (Warsaw, Poland), Mateusz Sieniawski (Warsaw, Poland), Piotr Karpinski (Warsaw, Poland), Pawel Morkisz (San Jose, Calif.), Szymon Migacz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Linnan Wang (Pleasanton, Calif.), Chen-Han Yu (Mountain House, Calif.), Satish Salian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ashwath Aithal (Fremont, Calif.) and Alexandru Fit-Florea (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine whether to remove one or more neural network layers. In at least on...