ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,459, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Groq Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data transformation algorithms for tensor streaming processor" was invented by Matthew Boyd (Portland, Ore.), Sahil Parmar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dennis Charles Abts (Eau Claire, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to data transformation algorithms performed at a deterministic streaming processor. Blocks of input data is streamed from a memory of the processor via a superlane of a processor to a first functional slice of the processor. The first functional slice permutes each block of input data, and each permuted block is streamed ba...