US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Frontier node-based data layout analysis framework" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,082, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Frontier node-based data layout analysis framework" was invented by Sheng Xu (Mountain View, Calif.), Hongbin Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Qingrui Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Jason Xiong (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a compatible data layout for a computational flow being executed on an integrated circuit device may include obtaining a representation of a set of connected nodes representing loopnests in a compute flow graph. Those of the nodes in the set of connected nodes that are associated with operators having...