US Patent Issued to Groq on June 24 for "Streaming processor architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,300, issued on June 24, was assigned to Groq Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Streaming processor architecture" was invented by Dennis Charles Abts (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Alexander Ross (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved placement of memory and functional modules, 'tiles', within a tiled processor architecture are disclosed for linear algebra calculations involving vectors and matrices comprising large amounts of data. The improved placement places the data in close proximity to the functional modules performing calculations using the data. These modules enable these calculations to be performe...