US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 7 for "Direct memory access operation for neural network accelerator" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,920, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Direct memory access operation for neural network accelerator" was invented by Ilya Minkin (Los Altos, Calif.), Ron Diamant (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kun Xu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an apparatus comprises: a direct memory access (DMA) descriptor queue that stores DMA descriptors, each DMA descriptor including an indirect address; an address translation table that stores an address mapping between indirect addresses and physical addresses; and a DMA engine configured to: fetch a DMA descriptor from the DMA descriptor queue...