ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,537, issued on May 27, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Multi-dimensional routing architecture" was invented by Alejandro Rico Carro (Austin, Texas), Saurabh Pijuskumar Sinha (Schertz, Texas), Douglas James Joseph (Leander, Texas) and Tiago Rogerio Muck (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein refer to a device having a multi-layered logic structure with multiple layers including a first layer and a second layer arranged vertically in a stacked configuration. The device may have a first network that links nodes together in the first layer. The device may have a second...