US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Method for neural network with weight quantization" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,886, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method for neural network with weight quantization" was invented by Kea Tiong Tang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and YuHsiang Cheng (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided and includes operations as below: training a spiking neural network (SNN) in a first device to generate multiple first weight values of M bits; calculating multiple second weight values of N bits corresponding to the first weight values according to a threshold value, the numbe...