US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Systems and methods for assigning tasks in a neural network processor" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,838, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for assigning tasks in a neural network processor" was invented by Liran Fishel (Raanana, Israel) and Erik K. Norden (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to managing tasks that when executed by a neural processor circuit instantiates a neural network. The neural processor circuit includes neural engine circuits and a neural task manager circuit. The neural task manager circuit includes multiple task queues and a task arbiter circuit. Each task queue stores a reference to a task list of tasks for a machine learni...