US Patent Issued to SYNTIANT on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods of sparsity exploiting" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,606, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SYNTIANT (Irvine, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a neuromorphic integrated circuit including, in some embodiments, a multi-layered neural network disposed in an analog multiplier array of two-quadrant multipliers. Each multiplier of the multipliers is wired to ground and draws a negligible amount of current when input signal values for input signals to tr...