US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 31 for "Neural network hardware device and system" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,279, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Neural network hardware device and system" was invented by Hans Cho (Vienna, Va.), Frank Keith Perkins (Alexandria, Va.) and Cory D. Cress (Springfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural network systems and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a method of making a neural network device includes: forming a mesh layer on a substrate, the mesh layer including a matrix of randomly dispersed conductive nano-strands insulated from one another; forming an isolation trench extend...