US Patent Issued to Apple on June 10 for "Processing non-power-of-two work unit in neural processor circuit" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,177, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Processing non-power-of-two work unit in neural processor circuit" was invented by Christopher L. Mills (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural processor includes one or more neural engine circuits for performing convolution operations on input data corresponding to one or more tasks to generate output data. The neural engine circuits process the input data having a power-of-two (P2) shape. The neural processor circuit also includes a data processor circuit. The data processor circuit fetches source data having a non-power-of-two (NP2) shape. T...