ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,762, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Groq Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Memory design for a processor" was invented by Jonathan Alexander Ross (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dennis Charles Abts (Eau Claire, Wis.), John Thompson (Minneapolis) and Gregory M. Thorson (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor having a functional slice architecture is divided into a plurality of functional units ("tiles") organized into a plurality of slices. Each slice is configured to perform specific functions within the processor, which may include memory slices (MEM) for storing operand data, and arithmetic logic slices for performing ...