US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Sequential pattern mining with the micron automata processor" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,866, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Sequential pattern mining with the micron automata processor" was invented by Ke Wang (Charlottesville, Va.), Elaheh Sadredini (Charlottesville, Va.) and Kevin Skadron (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware accelerated solution of the SPM (Sequential Pattern Mining) is proposed using Micron's Automata Processor (AP), a hardware implementation of non-deterministic finite automata (NFAs) The Generalized Sequential Pattern (GSP) algorithm for SPM searching exposes massive parallelism, and is therefore well-s...