US Patent Issued to Intel on May 27 for "Hybrid hardware accelerator and programmable array architecture" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,217, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hybrid hardware accelerator and programmable array architecture" was invented by Zoran Zivkovic (Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Kameran Azadet (San Ramon, Calif.), Kannan Rajamani (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Thomas Smith (Colmar, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for the use of a hybrid architecture that combines a programmable processing array and a hardware accelerator. The hybrid architecture dedicates the most computationally intensive blocks to the hardware accelerator, while maintaining flexibility for additional computations to be ...