US Patent Issued to Silicon Storage Technology on July 28 for "Precision tuning for the programming of analog neural memory in a deep learning artificial neural network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,279, issued on July 28, was assigned to Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Precision tuning for the programming of analog neural memory in a deep learning artificial neural network" was invented by Hieu Van Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Lemke (Boulder Creek, Calif.), Vipin Tiwari (Dublin, Calif.), Nhan Do (Saratoga, Calif.) and Mark Reiten (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Numerous examples of a precision tuning algorithm and apparatus are disclosed for precisely and quickly depositing the correct amount of charge on the floating gate of a non-volatile memory cell within a vector-by-matrix multiplicati...