ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,896, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Method for updating an artificial neural network" was invented by Pierre Demaj (Nice, France) and Laurent Folliot (Gourdon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, the disclosure proposes a method for updating an artificial neural network including initial weights stored in a memory at least in an integer format, which method includes: a processing unit determining the error gradients at the output of the layers of the neural network, the processing unit retrieving the initial weights from memory, the processing unit up...