US Patent Issued to Ascenium on Sept. 29 for "Parallel processing architecture for branch path suppression" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,638, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Ascenium Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Parallel processing architecture for branch path suppression" was invented by Peter Foley (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a parallel processing architecture for branch path suppression are disclosed. An array of compute elements is accessed. Each element is known to a compiler and is coupled to its neighboring elements. Control for the elements is provided on a cycle-by-cycle basis. Control is enabled by a stream of wide control words generated by the compiler. The control includes a branch. A plurality of compute ...