ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,249, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Pipeline with context transfer" was invented by Dhavalkumar C. Patel (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Markus Muller (Boeblingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of executing a first processing element among a sequence of processing elements within a data processing pipeline on input data to generate a first output, transferring the first output and context associated with the first processing element from the first processing element to a second processing element among the sequence of process...