US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Processing blocks of input data depthwise through layers of a neural network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,019, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Processing blocks of input data depthwise through layers of a neural network" was invented by Xiran Huang (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Cagatay Dikici (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware implementation of a neural network and a method of processing data in such a hardware implementation are disclosed. Input data for a plurality of layers of the network is processed in blocks, to generate respective blocks of output data. The processing proceeds depth-wise through the plurality of layers, eval...