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20140025159 | AXIALLY-RADIALLY NESTED EXPANDABLE DEVICE - Expandable medical implants for maintaining support of a body lumen are disclosed. These implants comprise an axially-radially nested, diametrically expandable, moveable vascular device for enlarging an occluded portion of a vessel. The device can be configured to allow for motion such as translating and/or slide and lock. One advantage of the axially-radially nested stent is that it maintains the expanded size, without significant recoil. | 01-23-2014 |
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20120109863 | CANONICAL SPIKING NEURON NETWORK FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY - Embodiments of the invention relate to canonical spiking neurons for spatiotemporal associative memory. An aspect of the invention provides a spatiotemporal associative memory including a plurality of electronic neurons having a layered neural net relationship with directional synaptic connectivity. The plurality of electronic neurons configured to detect the presence of a spatiotemporal pattern in a real-time data stream, and extract the spatiotemporal pattern. The plurality of electronic neurons are further configured to, based on learning rules, store the spatiotemporal pattern in the plurality of electronic neurons, and upon being presented with a version of the spatiotemporal pattern, retrieve the stored spatiotemporal pattern. | 05-03-2012 |
20120150781 | INTEGRATE AND FIRE ELECTRONIC NEURONS - An integrate and fire electronic neuron is disclosed. Upon receiving an external spike signal, a digital membrane potential of the electronic neuron is updated based on the external spike signal. The electric potential of the membrane is decayed based on a leak rate. Upon the electric potential of the membrane exceeding a threshold, a spike signal is generated. | 06-14-2012 |
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20120317062 | RECONFIGURABLE AND CUSTOMIZABLE GENERAL-PURPOSE CIRCUITS FOR NEURAL NETWORKS - A reconfigurable neural network circuit is provided. The reconfigurable neural network circuit comprises an electronic synapse array including multiple synapses interconnecting a plurality of digital electronic neurons. Each neuron comprises an integrator that integrates input spikes and generates a signal when the integrated inputs exceed a threshold. The circuit further comprises a control module for reconfiguring the synapse array. The control module comprises a global final state machine that controls timing for operation of the circuit, and a priority encoder that allows spiking neurons to sequentially access the synapse array. | 12-13-2012 |
20120330872 | CANONICAL SPIKING NEURON NETWORK FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY - Embodiments of the invention relate to canonical spiking neurons for spatiotemporal associative memory. An aspect of the invention provides a spatiotemporal associative memory including a plurality of electronic neurons having a layered neural net relationship with directional synaptic connectivity. The plurality of electronic neurons configured to detect the presence of a spatiotemporal pattern in a real-time data stream, and extract the spatiotemporal pattern. The plurality of electronic neurons are further configured to, based on learning rules, store the spatiotemporal pattern in the plurality of electronic neurons, and upon being presented with a version of the spatiotemporal pattern, retrieve the stored spatiotemporal pattern. | 12-27-2012 |
20130198121 | MULTI-COMPARTMENT NEURON SUITABLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN A DISTRIBUTED HARDWARE MODEL BY REDUCING COMMUNICATION BANDWIDTH - Embodiments of the present invention provide a neural module comprising a multilevel hierarchical structure of neural compartments. Each neural compartment is interconnected to one or more neural compartments of a previous level and a next hierarchical level in the hierarchical structure. Each neural compartment integrates spike signals from interconnected neural compartments of a previous hierarchical level, generates a spike signal in response to the integrated spike signals reaching a threshold of said neural compartment, and delivers a generated spike signal to interconnected neural compartments of a next hierarchical level. Each neural compartment is further interconnected to one or more external spiking systems, such that said neural compartment integrates spike signals from interconnected external spiking systems, and delivers a generated spike signal to interconnected external spiking systems. The neural compartments of a neural module include one soma compartment and a plurality of dendrite compartments. Each neural compartment is excitatory or inhibitory. | 08-01-2013 |
20130339281 | MULTI-PROCESSOR CORTICAL SIMULATIONS WITH RECIPROCAL CONNECTIONS WITH SHARED WEIGHTS - Embodiments of the invention relate to distributed simulation frameworks that provide reciprocal communication. One embodiment comprises interconnecting neuron groups on different processors via a plurality of reciprocal communication pathways, and facilitating the exchange of reciprocal spiking communication between two different processors using at least one Ineuron module. Each processor includes at least one neuron group. Each neuron group includes at least one electronic neuron. | 12-19-2013 |
20140032464 | MULTI-COMPARTMENT NEURONS WITH NEURAL CORES - Embodiments of the invention provide a neural core circuit comprising a synaptic interconnect network including plural electronic synapses for interconnecting one or more source electronic neurons with one or more target electronic neurons. The interconnect network further includes multiple axon paths and multiple dendrite paths. Each synapse is at a cross-point junction of the interconnect network between a dendrite path and an axon path. The core circuit further comprises a routing module maintaining routing information. The routing module routes output from a source electronic neuron to one or more selected axon paths. Each synapse provides a configurable level of signal conduction from an axon path of a source electronic neuron to a dendrite path of a target electronic neuron. | 01-30-2014 |
20140214739 | CORTICAL SIMULATOR - Embodiments of the invention relate to a function-level simulator for modeling a neurosynaptic chip. One embodiment comprises simulating a neural network using an object-oriented framework including a plurality of object-oriented classes. Each class corresponds to a component of a neural network. Running a simulation model of the neural network includes instantiating multiple simulation objects from the classes. Each simulation object is an instance of one of the classes. | 07-31-2014 |