ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,808, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"CPU tight-coupled accelerator" was invented by Zhi-Gang Liu (Westford, Mass.), Jun Woo Jang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sehwan Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dongkyun Kim (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes: a central processing unit (CPU) core; an accelerator; and an acceleration instruction queue connected to the CPU core and the accelerator. The CPU core is to: fetch and decode one or more instructions from among an instruction sequence in a programmed order; determine an instruction from among th...