ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,747, issued on Oct. 28.
"Programmable stacked processor with simultaneous execution of all program steps over a data stream" was invented by Mark Ashley Mathews (Melbourne, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing machine has a plurality of slice processing units (SPUs) coupled in a specific order from a first SPU to a last SPU, each SPU configured to perform a single instruction of a specific algorithm on an incoming value and to pass a resulting output value to a next SPU in the specific order. Values are retrieved from a memory unit by a direct memory access (DMA) controller and passed as input to the first SPU in the speci...