US Patent Issued to Arm on July 15 for "Processing unit for performing operations of a neural network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,274, issued on July 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Processing unit for performing operations of a neural network" was invented by Dominic Hugo Symes (Cambridge, Great Britain), John Wakefield Brothers III (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Fredrik Peter Stolt (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit is described that receives an instruction to perform a first operation on a first layer of a neural network, block dependency data, and an instruction to perform a second operation on a second layer of the neural network. The processing unit performs the first operation, which inclu...