ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,099, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enhanced reconfigurable interconnect network" was invented by Xiangyu Dong (San Jose, Calif.) and Jianqiao Liu (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an enhanced reconfigurable interconnect network. The reconfigurable interconnect network can be used to switch between multiple different connection topologies for different sizes of subsets of processing nodes in a cluster. For example, for a given number of processing nodes to be used, different...