ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,227, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Sparse SIMD cross-lane processing unit" was invented by Rahul Nagarajan (San Jose, Calif.), Suvinay Subramanian (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Arpith Chacko Jacob (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a cross-lane processing unit (XPU) for performing data-dependent operations across multiple data processing lanes of a processor. Rather than implementing operation-specific circuits for each data-dependent operation, the XPU can be configured to perform different operations in response to input signals configuring...