US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, INHA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION on June 16 for "Hardware-based artificial neural network device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,443, issued on June 16, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea) and INHA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Hardware-based artificial neural network device" was invented by Byung-Gook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sungmin Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Junsu Yu (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyungjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware-based artificial neural network device includes a synaptic array including a plurality of capacitor-based synaptic cells, each having a variable capacitance according to a recorded weight, a word line selection uni...