ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,849, issued on June 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Performing hardware operator fusion" was invented by Animesh Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tobias Joseph Kastulus Edler von Koch (Austin, Texas), Yizhi Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Taemin Kim (Portland, Ore.), Jindrich Zejda (Saratoga, Calif.), Yida Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vinod Sharma (Menlo Park, Calif.), Richard John Heaton (San Jose, Calif.) and Randy Renfu Huang (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating executable instructions for a computing system is provided. The method comprises: receiving a first set of instructions including...