US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on Sept. 30 for "Direct access to external storage from a reconfigurable processor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,272, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Direct access to external storage from a reconfigurable processor" was invented by Subhra Mazumdar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Guoyao Feng (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Neal Sanghvi (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system is presented that includes multiple local buses, a host processor, a network interface controller (NIC) for connecting to external storage via a network, one or more reconfigurable processors, and a bus switch. The bus switch couples the multiple local busses, thereby operatively coupling the one or more reco...