ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,465, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method for operating neural network" was invented by Kea Tiong Tang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chen-Han Hsu (Keelung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided and includes operations as below: receiving multiple spike signals in an input layer of a spiking neural network during multiple time steps; counting a corresponding number of spikes in the spike signals for each of the time steps; weighting, in response to the corresponding number of spikes in...