US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Texture unit circuit in neural network processor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,886, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Texture unit circuit in neural network processor" was invented by Christopher L. Mills (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a texture unit circuit in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit includes a tensor access operation circuit with the texture unit circuit, a data processor circuit, and at least one neural engine circuit. The texture unit circuit fetches a source tensor from a system memory by referencing an index tensor in the system memory representing indexing information into th...