ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,285, issued on July 1, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Diagonal torus network" was invented by Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Taipei, Taiwan), Huang-Yu Chen (Zhudong Township, Taiwan), Yung-Chen Chien (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Tzu-Ying Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Hsiang Ma (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chung-Hsing Wang (Baoshan Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is disclosed that includes multiple channels and multiple processing nodes. Each processing node includes input/output (I/O) ports coupled to the channels and channel control modules coupled to the I/O ports. Each processing node is...