US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Reformatting matrices to improve computing efficiency" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,710, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reformatting matrices to improve computing efficiency" was invented by Manoj Kumar (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Pratap C. Pattnaik (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Kattamuri Ekanadham (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.), Jessica Tseng (Fremont, Calif.) and Jose E. Moreira (Irvington, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data ordering device includes a plurality of inputs N and a plurality of outputs M. There is a sorting network coupled between the plurality of inputs N and the plurality of outputs M. There are one or more latches comprising a buffer coupled between...