ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,447, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Neural network processor" was invented by Mahesh M Mehendale (Dallas), Nagendra Gulur (Plano, Texas), Srinivasa BS Chakravarthy (Bangalore, India), Atul Lele (Bangalore, India) and Hetul Sanghvi (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a neural network processor comprises a memory interface, an instruction buffer, a weights buffer, an input data register, a weights register, an output data register, a computing engine, and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a first instruction from the instruction buffer; responsive to t...