US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 24 for "Butterfly network on load data return" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,534, issued on June 24, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Butterfly network on load data return" was invented by Dheera Balasubramanian (Richardson, Texas), Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.), Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device are shown that are operable to transform and align a plurality of fields from an input to an output data stream using a multilayer butterfly or inverse butterfly network by selectably switching bit positions of the input data stream. In some examples, a device includes a first circuit...