US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Crossbar circuit for unaligned memory access in neural network processor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,679, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Crossbar circuit for unaligned memory access in neural network processor" was invented by Paolo Di Febbo (Redwood City, Calif.) and Anthony Ghannoum (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an unaligned memory access in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit includes a crossbar circuit and a neural engine circuit coupled to the crossbar circuit. During each operating cycle of the neural processor circuit, the crossbar circuit receives a portion of input data, and re-aligns or bypasses the...