ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,487, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for simplifying an artificial neural network" was invented by Alexandru Paul Condurache (Renningen, Germany), Jens Eric Markus Mehnert (Malmsheim, Germany) and Paul Wimmer (Filderstadt-Bonlanden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simplifying an artificial neural network (ANN) whose behavior is characterized by trainable parameters. In the method: a first assessment criterion is provided, which maps simplified configurations of the ANN on predictions for the performance of the ANN in the particular configuration; a second assessme...