ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,442, issued on June 16, was assigned to SYNTIANT (Irvine, Calif.).

"Neuromorphic synthesizer" was invented by Pieter Vorenkamp (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Kurt F. Busch (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Stephen W. Bailey (Irvine, Calif.) and Jeremiah H. Holleman III (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for automatically generating an integrated circuit. The method includes receiving a behavioral description of at least the first layer of the neural network, converting the behavioral description of the first layer of the neural network into the computational graph, converting a computational graph to a circuit...