ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,991, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ascenium Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Parallel processing architecture with distributed register files" was invented by Peter Foley (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for task processing based on a parallel processing architecture with distributed register files are disclosed. A two-dimensional array of compute elements is accessed. Each compute element is known to a compiler and is coupled to its neighboring compute elements. The array of compute elements is controlled on a cycle-by-cycle basis. The controlling is enabled by a stream of wide, variable length...