ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,226, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for utilizing external neural processor from graphics processor" was invented by Elina Kamenetskaya (Belmont, Mass.), Amir Momeni (Arlington, Mass.), Hamza Omar (San Diego), Engin Ipek (San Diego), Alexei Vladimirovich Bourd (San Diego) and Zifeng Li (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to concurrent tensor processing with multiple processing engines. In accordance with one aspect, an apparatus including a common memory unit; a first processing engine coupled to the common memory unit, wherein the first...