ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,501, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Data processing apparatus and method for transmitting triggered instructions between processing elements" was invented by Balaji Venu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mbou Eyole (Soham, Great Britain) and Giacomo Gabrielli (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a data processing apparatus and a method of operating a data processing apparatus. The data processing apparatus comprises a plurality of processing elements connected via a network on a single chip arranged to form a triggered spatial architecture. Each processing elem...