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Inventor

John J. Hopfield

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1987

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Years active

1987

Total patents

1

Most recent

1987

Domains

ai_mlsemiconductorsconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

1980s
1

Patents

1

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1 patents, in 1987

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US 4660166·1987·California Institute of Technology

How Hopfield Networks Use Resistors to Mimic Brain-Like Memory

A foundational patent describing an electronic circuit that uses a grid of resistors to perform computations, effectively creating an artificial neural network that can store and recall patterns.

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