US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on July 29 for "Mesh network-on-a-chip (NOC) with heterogeneous routers" (California, Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,587, issued on July 29, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mesh network-on-a-chip (NOC) with heterogeneous routers" was invented by Qingbo Wang (Irvine, Calif.), Mitchell Robert Fream (Germantown, Md.), Adarsha Balaji (Philadelphia), Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, Calif.) and Dejan Vucinic (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mesh network-on-a-chip (NOC) with heterogenous routers for use with homogenous processing elements. Some of the routers are configured differently from other routers to interface more efficiently with particular physical resources that the processing elements requ...