ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,923, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Permuting in a matrix-vector processor" was invented by Dong Hyuk Woo (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory Michael Thorson (Waunakee, Wis.), Andrew Everett Phelps (Middleton, Wis.), Olivier Temam (Antony, France), Jonathan Ross (Mountain View, Calif.) and Christopher Aaron Clark (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit comprises an input register configured to receive an input vector of elements, a control register configured to receive a control vector of elements, wherein each element of the control vector corresponds to a respective element of the i...