US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Task context switch for neural processor circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,891, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Task context switch for neural processor circuit" was invented by Christopher L. Mills (Saratoga, Calif.) and Kenneth W. Waters (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural processor includes neural engines for performing convolution operations on input data corresponding to one or more tasks to generate output data. The neural processor also includes a data processor circuit coupled to external system memory. The data processor circuit includes a buffer for storing the output data from the neural engines. The neural processor further includes a tas...