US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 18 for "Bidirectional ring-based interconnection networks having a cross bar for multiprocessors" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,079, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Bidirectional ring-based interconnection networks having a cross bar for multiprocessors" was invented by Avery Francois (East Schodack, N.Y.), Kenneth Douglas Klapproth (Travis, Texas), Anna Mozeshtam (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Chunggeon Rhee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Ekaterina M. Ambroladze (Somers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include processing commands on multiprocessor chip having a plurality of nodes that are interconnected via a clockwise ring network and a counterclockwise ring network. Aspects include receiving, by a ...