US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 3 for "Memory management for overlap data between tiles of neural networks" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,322, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory management for overlap data between tiles of neural networks" was invented by Yilin Zhang (Shanghai), Yan Zhou (Shanghai) and Qifei Fan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing an overlap data buffer to store portions of tiles between passes of chained layers of a neural network are described. One accelerator circuit includes one or more processing units to execute instructions corresponding to the chained layers in multiple passes. In a first pass, the processing unit(s) receives a first input tile of an input feature map from ...