ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,377, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ascenium Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Parallel processing architecture with block move support" 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 are disclosed. An array of compute elements is accessed. Each compute element within the array is known to a compiler and is coupled to its neighboring compute elements. The array of compute elements is coupled to at least one data cache. The data cache provides memory storage for the array. Control for the compute elements is provided on a cycle-by-cycle basis. Control is enabled by...