US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on April 7 for "Neural network accelerator with a configurable pipeline" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,919, issued on April 7, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Neural network accelerator with a configurable pipeline" was invented by Javier Sanchez (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Alan Vines (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network accelerator that has a configurable hardware pipeline includes a plurality of hardware processing units, each hardware processing unit comprising hardware to accelerate performing one or more neural network operations on a tensor of data; and a crossbar coupled to each hardware processing unit of the plurality of hardware pr...