US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 3 for "Finite automata global counter in a data flow graph-driven analytics platform having analytics hardware accelerators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,867, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Finite automata global counter in a data flow graph-driven analytics platform having analytics hardware accelerators" was invented by Rajan Goyal (Saratoga, Calif.) and Satyanarayana Lakshmipathi Billa (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for performing analytical operations are described. A hardware-based regular expression (RegEx) engine performs a regular expression operation on a stream of data units based on a finite automata (FA) graph. Performing includes configuring a regular expression engine of a hardw...