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https://www.nist.gov/patents/inventors/1149176
Search Patents by Mark D. Stiles
Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.
Matthew Daniels
,
Mark D. Stiles
and
Advait Madhavan
The invention is a computer architecture that efficiently calculates a weight matrix update for an AI model, especially ones designed to be implemented in hardware neural networks. Our architecture uses an approximation algorithm to do this calculation with less memory overhead. The architecture
Advait Madhavan
,
Mark D. Stiles
and
Matthew Daniels
Tropical algebra is an emerging field of mathematics concerned with graph theory, control theory, and certain optimization problems, especially in discrete event systems. We developed a novel computer circuit called a tropical state machine that uses signal timing and the physics of nanodevices to