US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 11 for "Prefetching weights for use in a neural network processor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,472, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Prefetching weights for use in a neural network processor" was invented by Jonathan Ross (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network, the circuit comprising: a systolic array comprising a plurality of cells; a weight fetcher unit configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: send, for the neural network layer, a plurality of weight inputs to cells along a first dimension of the systolic array; and a plurality of weight sequencer units, each weight sequenc...