ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,876, issued on March 18, was assigned to dSPACE GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Method for programming an FPGA" was invented by Heiko Kalte (Paderborn, Germany) and Dominik Lubeley (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for programming an FPGA, wherein a library with elementary operations and a respective latency table for each of the elementary operations of the library are provided. a data path is defined. The latencies are recorded for a multiplicity of clock rates that are different from one another and these latencies are added for every clock rate so that a total latency for the data path results for this mult...