ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,560, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with neural network lightening" was invented by Changyong Son (Anyang-si, South Korea), Jinwoo Son (Seoul, South Korea), Byungin Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Chang Kyu Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jae-Joon Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightened neural network method and apparatus. The neural network apparatus includes a processor configured to generate a neural network with a plurality of layers including plural nodes by applying lightened weighted connections between neighboring nodes in...