ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,828, issued on June 17, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Graph acceleration solution with cloud FPGA" was invented by Shuangchen Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dimin Niu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hongzhong Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.), Zhe Zhang (Beijing) and Yuhao Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes systems and methods for facilitating memory access for graph neural network (GNN) processing. An example method includes fetching, by an access engine circuitry implemented on a circuitry board, a portion of structure data of a graph from a pinned memory in a host memory of a hos...