ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,752, issued on May 20, was assigned to MIPS Holding Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Processor cluster address generation" was invented by David John Simpson (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen Curtis Johnson (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Richard Douglas Trauben (Morgan Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data manipulation using processor cluster address generation are disclosed. One or more processor clusters capable of executing software-initiated work requests are accessed. A plurality of dimensions from a tensor is flattened into a single dimension. A work request address field is parsed, where the address field contains uniq...