ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,059, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Energy-efficient processing" was invented by Matthias Sauer (San Jose, Calif.) and Bernd W. Adler (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an apparatus includes first circuitry configured to perform a computation that uses a matrix as an input and second circuitry configured to perform the computation, where the second circuitry includes a smaller amount of processing resources than the first circuitry. The second circuitry may begin performing the computation on at least a portion of a set of input data. One or more storage elements m...