US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 16 for "Probabilistic numeric convolutional neural networks" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,453, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Probabilistic numeric convolutional neural networks" was invented by Marc Anton Finzi (Chevy Chase, Md.), Roberto Bondesan (Amsterdam) and Max Welling (Bussum, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing operations with probabilistic numeric convolutional neural network, including: defining a Gaussian Process based on a mean and a covariance of input data; applying a linear operator to the Gaussian Process to generate pre-activation data; applying a nonlinear operation to the pre-activation da...