ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,183, issued on May 19, was assigned to Achronix Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Conflict-free parallel radix sorting device, system and method" was invented by Marcel Van der Goot (Pasadena, Calif.), Raymond Nijssen (San Jose, Calif.) and Christopher C. LaFrieda (Ridgefield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conflict-free parallel radix sorting algorithm, and devices and systems implementing this algorithm, schedules memory copies of data elements of a large dataset so that there is always a single copy to each target memory each cycle of operation for the system implementing the algorithm. The conflict-free parallel r...