ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,717, issued on July 8, was assigned to Xilnix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Localized and relocatable software placement and NoC-based access to memory controllers" was invented by Aman Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Krishnan Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.), Shishir Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Sagheer Ahmad (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ahmad R. Ansari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of processing elements and a plurality of memory controllers. The system includes a network on chip (NoC) providing connectivity between the plurality of processing elements and the plurality of memory controllers. The NoC inc...