ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,767, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data transfer scheduling for hardware accelerator" was invented by Monica Man Kay Tang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ruihua Peng (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhuo Ruan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device, including a processor configured to perform data transfer scheduling for a hardware accelerator including a plurality of processing areas. Performing data transfer scheduling may include receiving a plurality of data transfer instructions that encode requests to transfer data to respective processing areas. Performing dat...