ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,926, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Circular buffering 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 circular buffers in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit includes multiple neural engine circuits and a data processor circuit coupled to at least one of the neural engine circuits. The at least one neural engine circuit performs at least convolution operations. The data processor circuit includes a circular buffer, and a flow control circuit coupled to the circul...