ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,778, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for torque-based structured pruning for deep neural networks" was invented by Tien C. Bau (Irvine, Calif.), Arshita Gupta (Irvine, Calif.) and Hrishikesh Deepak Garud (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes accessing a machine learning model, the machine learning model trained using a torque-based constraint. The method also includes receiving an input from an input source and providing the input to the machine learning model. The method also includes receiving an output from the machine l...