ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,316, issued on March 18, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Vector processor architectures" was invented by Martin Langhammer (Alderbury, Great Britain), Eriko Nurvitadhi (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Gregg William Baeckler (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit device that includes a plurality of vector registers configurable to store a plurality of vectors and switch circuitry communicatively coupled to the plurality of vector registers. The switch circuitry is configurable to route a portion of the plurality of vectors. Additionally, the integrated circuit d...