ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,366, issued on June 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-card FPGA system" was invented by Chen Zhu (Cedar Park, Texas), Kristopher Ryan King (Austin, Texas), Chakrapani Saralaya (Leander, Texas) and Kishore Yalamanchili (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic field programmable gate array (FPGA) system may include a plurality of FPGA devices connected in a physical ring topology. Each FPGA device may include a user programmable logic partition and a platform logic partition. The platform logic for each FPGA device can be selected by the client from a plurality of platform logic designs hav...