ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,023, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Femtosense Inc. (San Bruno, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for system-on-a-chip neural network processing applications" was invented by Sam Brian Fok (San Leandro, Calif.), Alexander Smith Neckar (Redwood City, Calif.) and Gabriel Vega (Kailua, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for multi-purpose neural network core and memory. The asynchronous/parallel nature of neural network tasks may allow a neural network IP core to dynamically switch between: a system memory (in whole or part), a neural network processor (in whole or part), and/or a hybrid of system memory and ne...