US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Binary comparison and reduction operations in neural network processor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,545, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Binary comparison and reduction operations 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 binary comparison operations (e.g., Boolean operations) and reduction operations in a neural processor circuit to enable implementation of conditional operations without software control. The neural processor circuit includes a neural engine circuit and a planar engine circuit coupled to the neural engine circuit. The neural engine circuit performs a convolu...