US Patent Issued to MONTAGE ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) on April 8 for "Device and method for selecting top values from a set of raw values" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,709, issued on April 8, was assigned to MONTAGE ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO (Shanghai).

"Device and method for selecting top values from a set of raw values" was invented by Zhijie Liu (Shanghai), Jinfeng Ji (Shanghai) and Jie Dai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a device for selecting top values from a set of raw values, comprising: an output queue, a loop queue, a top value storage module and a control module. The control module is configured to, at a higher priority, merge the intermediate sequence stored in the loop queue with the at most N top values stored in a storage area of the top va...