ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,695, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multicore processor with each core having independent floating point datapath and integer datapath" was invented by Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (Chandler, Ariz.), Barath Lakshmanan (Chandler, Ariz.), Tatiana Shpeisman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.), Ping T. Tang (Edison, N.J.), Michael Strickland (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaoming Chen (Shanghai), Anbang Yao (Beijing), Ben J. Ashbaugh (Folsom, Calif.), Linda L Hurd (Cool, Calif.) and Liwei Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a general-purpose graphics processing unit...