US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 16 for "Neural network device with configurable shared memory" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,880, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Neural network device with configurable shared memory" was invented by Cornelis Hermanus van Berkel (Heeze, Netherlands), Lennart Bamberg (Hamburg, Germany) and Luc Johannes Wilhelmus Waeijen (Haelen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network device includes a shared physical memory that has a plurality of independently accessible memory sections. The neural network device further includes a data processor core to execute instructions. The instructions include at least one instruction involving multiple memory access operations specifying res...