ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,203, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Computational unit of a configurable integrated unit intended to improve the management of a data flow" was invented by Pascal Maurere (Toulouse, France) and Anthony Caldeira (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computational unit of a configurable integrated circuit includes an input receiving data, an output and a core which is configured to execute an operation on the basis of at least one datum in order to obtain a result, and transmit the result to the output. The unit further includes a memory of first in, first out type associated ...