US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on July 14 for "Methods for compressing a neural network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,259, issued on July 14, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Methods for compressing a neural network" was invented by Nikhil Kapoor (Wolfsburg, Germany), Peter Schlicht (Wolfsburg, Germany), John Serin Varghese (Braunschweig, Germany) and Jan David Schneider (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods for compressing a neural network, wherein members of a vehicle fleet locally execute the neural network and during at least one inference phase each determine a selection of elements of the neural network that should be pruned, wherein the members of the fleet transmit the respec...