ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,168, issued on June 9, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a deep neural network" was invented by Peter Schlicht (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Nico Maurice Schmidt (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating a deep neural network, wherein the deep neural network is operated with multiple layers between an input layer and an output layer, and wherein, in addition, at least one classic filter is used in the deep neural network between the input and the output layer. The invention also relates to a device for data processing and to a computer-readable storage med...