US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Compression of kernel data for neural network operations" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,260, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Compression of kernel data for neural network operations" was invented by Liran Fishel (Raanana, Israel), Sung Hee Park (Cupertino, Calif.) and Christopher L. Mills (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a neural processor circuit that includes a kernel access circuit and multiple neural engine circuits. The kernel access circuit reads compressed kernel data from memory external to the neural processor circuit. Each neural engine circuit receives compressed kernel data from the kernel access circuit. Each neural engine circuit inc...