ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,170, issued on July 29, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for transposing a matrix using a memory block" was invented by Hong Shan Neoh (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit system includes a memory block and first and second processing circuits. The first and second processing circuits store a matrix in the memory block by concurrently writing first and second rows or columns of the matrix to first and second regions of storage in the memory block, respectively. The first and second processing circuits transpose the matrix to generate a transposed matrix by concurrently reading first...