US Patent Issued to Arm on Feb. 17 for "Neural network processing" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,966, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Neural network processing" was invented by Elliot Maurice Simon Rosemarine (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processor is disclosed that includes a processing unit operable to process neural network data, and a cache system operable to cache neural network data for the processing unit. When neural network data is required for processing, the processing unit issues a request for the neural network data to the cache system, and if the requested data is not cached in the cache system, a compression codec is caused to decode a part of a compressed n...