ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,762, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Explicit scheduling of on-chip operations" was invented by Michial Allen Gunter (Oakland, Calif.) and Charles Henry Leichner IV (Palo Alto, Calif.).

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 obtaining a first schedule, for a first hardware block of an integrated circuit device, where the first schedule identifies a first set of operations to be performed by the first hardware block. Obtaining a second schedule for a second hardware block of the integrated circuit device...