ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,183, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Subtask storage for streaming convolutions in neural network processor" was invented by Sayyed Karen Khatamifard (Bellevue, Wash.), Chenfan Sun (Shoreline, Wash.), Alon Yaakov (Raanana, Israel), Husam Khashiboun (Peqiin, Israel), Jeffrey D Marker (Pleasant View, Utah), Saman Naderiparizi (Seattle), Ramana V Rachakonda (Austin, Texas) and Rohit K Gupta (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to streaming convolution operations in a neural processor circuit that includes a neural engine circuit and a neural task manager. The neural task m...