Patents by Inventor Alain CAPPY

Alain CAPPY has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210216856
    Abstract: Electronic neural circuit including at least one pre-neuron having an output voltage VAout, and at least one post-neuron that are linked by at least one excitatory synapse having at least one switching input, wherein the excitatory synapse is supplied with power by the output VAout and receives, on its switching input, a switching signal VAout_bar whose state is complementary to that of the output VAout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Francois Danneville, Alain CAPPY, llias Sourikopoulos, Christophe Loyez
  • Publication number: 20190130258
    Abstract: An artificial neuron including: a membrane capacitor; an input of an external synaptic excitation in current, the membrane capacitor integrating the input current; a negative-feedback impulse circuit, supplied by a power supply at a negative voltage between ?200 mV and 0 mV and at a positive voltage between 0 mV and +200 mV, including: a bridge based on pMOS and nMOS transistors in series and linked by a midpoint to the membrane capacitor, the midpoint defining the output of the artificial neuron, at least one delay capacitor between the gate and the source of one of the transistors of the bridge, at least two CMOS inverters between the membrane capacitor and the gates of the transistors of the bridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Alain CAPPY, Francois DANNEVILLE, Virginie HOEL, Christophe LOYEZ