US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Reconfigurable interconnect with multiplexer for flexible processor partitioning in a server computer" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,455, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Reconfigurable interconnect with multiplexer for flexible processor partitioning in a server computer" was invented by Shuwei Teng (Bothell, Wash.) and Darin Lee Frink (Lake Tapps, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server computer can have multiple potential configurations depending on a state of an input signal. Interconnect buses between processors in a server computer can be reconfigured on startup or dynamically ("hot add/drop") by one or more multiplexers, thereby allowing the server computer to be flexibly partitioned into custom arrangements of pr...