US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for task switching in neural network processor" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,443, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for task switching in 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. A neural task manager circuit within the neural processor circuit can switch between tasks in different task queues. Each task queue is configured to store a reference to a task list of tasks for instantiating a neural network. Each task queue can also be assigned a p...