ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,124, issued on June 10, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vertical and horizontal broadcast of shared operands" was invented by Sateesh Lagudu (Hyderabad, India), Allen H. Rush (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Mantor (Orlando, Fla.), Arun Vaidyanathan Ananthanarayan (Hyderabad, India), Prasad Nagabhushanamgari (Hyderabad, India) and Maxim V. Kazakov (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array processor includes processor element arrays distributed in rows and columns. The processor element arrays perform operations on parameter values. The array processor also includes memory interfaces that bro...