ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,945, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System with Voronoi feature transform computation circuitry" was invented by Jinsu Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Angie Wang (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system or a system-on-a-chip is provided that includes a memory device and a hardware acceleration circuit separate from the memory device and coupled to the memory device via one or more communications paths. The hardware acceleration circuit can include a first processor configured to receive data from the memory device and to process one or more rows of data iteratively or in parallel,...