ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,343, issued on July 8, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device including array of processor elements and method of controlling the same" was invented by Taro Fujii (Tokyo), Teruhito Tanaka (Tokyo), Katsumi Togawa (Tokyo) and Takao Toi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a data path having a plurality of processor elements, a state transition management unit managing a state of the data path, and a parallel computing unit in which an input and an output of data is sequentially carried out, and an output of the parallel computing unit is capable of being handled by the p...