US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on April 15 for "Buffer addressing for a convolutional neural network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,488, issued on April 15, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Buffer addressing for a convolutional neural network" was invented by Daniel Barnard (Berkhamsted, Great Britain), Clifford Gibson (St. Albans, Great Britain) and Colin McQuillan (Watford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing input data for a layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN). Input data is received comprising input data values to be processed in a layer of the CNN. Addresses in banked memory of a buffer are determined in which the received data values are to be stored based upon format dat...