US Patent Issued to Graphcore on July 22 for "Multi-threaded barrel processor using shared weight registers in a common weights register file" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,043, issued on July 22, was assigned to Graphcore Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Multi-threaded barrel processor using shared weight registers in a common weights register file" was invented by Alan Graham Alexander (Wotton-Under-Edge, Great Britain), Simon Christian Knowles (Corston, Great Britain) and Mrudula Chidambar Gore (Bath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor comprising a barrel-threaded execution unit for executing concurrent threads, and one or more register files comprising a respective set of context registers for each concurrent thread. One of the one or more register files further comprises a set ...