US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Instruction set architecture for implementing linear activation functions in neural networks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,399, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Instruction set architecture for implementing linear activation functions in neural networks" was invented by Srijesh Sudarsanan (Waltham, Mass.), Deepak Mathew (Acton, Mass.), Marc Hoffman (Mansfield, Mass.), Sundar Rajan Balasubramanian (Groton, Mass.), Mansi Jain (Littleton, Mass.), James Lee (Northborough, Mass.) and Gerald Sweeney (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to using a single instruction to initiate a sequence of computational operations related to a neural network activation function. An electronic device recei...