ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,580, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Multi-level hierarchical routing matrices for pattern-recognition processors" was invented by Harold B Noyes (Boise, Idaho) and David R. Brown (Lucas, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-level hierarchical routing matrices for pattern-recognition processors are provided. One such routing matrix may include one or more programmable and/or non-programmable connections in and between levels of the matrix. The connections may couple routing lines to feature cells, groups, rows, blocks, or any other arrangement of components of the pattern-recognition p...