ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,123, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable dataflow unit having remote FIFO management functionality" was invented by Manish K. Shah (Austin, Texas), Ram Sivaramakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory Frederick Grohoski (Bee Cave, Texas) and Raghu Prabhakar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable processing unit includes a first and second internal network, an interface to an external network, a first configurable unit coupled to the first internal network, a second configurable unit coupled to both internal networks, and a third configurable unit couple...