ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,580, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Crossbar based transpose data transfers" was invented by Patricio Kaplan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ron Diamant (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to perform transpose operations in a crossbar circuit may include receiving a set of write transactions to write a data array to a target memory, and determining that the set of write transactions is for a transpose write. Write data for each of the write transactions can be stored diagonally in a transpose memory of the crossbar circuit. Each row of data in the transpose memory can be rota...