ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,915, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alta, Calif.).

"Operating a cost estimation tool for placing and routing an operation unit graph on a reconfigurable processor" was invented by Yue Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kin Hing Leung (Cupertino, Calif.), Likun Hao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arvind Krishna Sujeeth (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sumti Jairath (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew Deng (San Jose, Calif.) and Raghu Prabhakar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system with a cost estimation tool for estimating a realized bandwidth consumption of a logical edge between a logical producer unit and a logical consume...