US Patent Issued to Altera on April 21 for "Shared non-blocking crossbar buffer circuits and methods" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,977, issued on April 21, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Shared non-blocking crossbar buffer circuits and methods" was invented by Sreedhar Ravipalli (Cupertino, Calif.), Mahesh Kumashikar (Bangalore, India), Md Altaf Hossain (Portland, Ore.) and Ankireddy Nalamalpu (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit system includes a processing circuit, an accelerator circuit, and a buffer circuit that stores packets of data and that is coupled to the processing circuit and to the accelerator circuit. The buffer circuit functions as a crossbar circuit by allowing each of the accelerator circuit and the proces...