ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,229, issued on July 7, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fabric memory network-on-chip extension to ALM registers and LUTRAM" was invented by Bee Yee Ng (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia), Ilya K. Ganusov (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott Jeremy Weber (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide a programmable fabric including programmable logic. The programmable logic may include memory, a network-on-chip (NOC), and at least one micro NOC formed with hardened resources in the programmable fabric. Further, the at least one micro NOC may be communicatively coupled to the NOC ...