US Patent Issued to Apple on April 15 for "Multi-dimensional tensor support extension in neural network processor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,494, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-dimensional tensor support extension in neural network processor" was invented by Christopher L. Mills (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a tensor access operation circuit in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit further includes a data processor circuit and at least one neural engine circuit. The tensor access operation circuit indirectly accesses at least a region of a source tensor in a system memory having a rank, and maps one or more source components of the source tensor...