US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 22 for "Thermodynamic neural network" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,613, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Thermodynamic neural network" was invented by Todd Hylton (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include training a thermodynamic neural network having a plurality of nodes interconnected by a plurality of edges. The training of the thermodynamic neural network may include determining an optimal organization of the thermodynamic neural network in which one or more charges are transferred through the thermodynamic neural network with a minimum quantity of residual charge remaining at each of the plurality of nodes....