ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,991, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"FPGA-enabled compute instances" was invented by Erez Izenberg (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Nafea Bshara (Seattle), Christopher Pettey (Woodinville, Wash.) and Curtis Karl Ohrt (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource manager of a virtualized computing service indicates to a client that FPGA-enabled compute instances are supported at the service. From a set of virtualization hosts of the service, a particular host from which an FPGA is accessible is selected for the client based on an indication of computation objectives of the client. Configuration ...