ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,493, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Synthetic loading of configurable logic devices" was invented by Matthew Fornero (Berkeley, Calif.), Manjukumar Harthikote Matha (San Francisco) and Francis Bruno (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for synthetic loading of configurable logic devices. In some aspects, a method includes determining computational elements that are available for configuration in a configurable logic hardware device; executing a compilation process to program the available computational elements with a conditionally-enabled co...