US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on April 29 for "General-purpose systolic array" (California, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,756, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"General-purpose systolic array" was invented by Reginald Clifford Young (Palo Alto, Calif.), Trevor Gale (Boston), Sushma Honnavara-Prasad (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Paolo Mantovani (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A systolic array cell is described, the cell including two general-purpose arithmetic logic units (ALUs) and register-file. A plurality of the cells may be configured in a matrix or array, such that the output of the first ALU in a first cell is provided to a second cell to the right of the first cell, and the output of the second ALU in the ...