ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,308, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Dataflow gaskets for handling data streams" was invented by Christopher Mayer (Dover, Mass.), Sudhir Desai (Mansfield, Mass.) and Arash Azizimazreah (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for facilitating data movement among circuit blocks are disclosed. In certain embodiments, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a network of dataflow gaskets including a first dataflow gasket coupled to a first circuit block and a second dataflow gasket coupled to a second circuit block. The first circuit block can write to the second circ...