ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,336, issued on April 21, was assigned to AzurEngine Technologies Zhuhai Inc. (Zhuhai, China).

"Single instruction multiple dispatches for short kernels in a reconfigurable parallel processor" was invented by Toshio Nagata (Lake Elsinore, Calif.), Yuan Li (San Diego) and Jianbin Zhu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processors, systems and methods are provided for executing multiple instances of a kernel by multiple segments of columns of a processor. A method may include retrieving kernel information of a kernel by a sequencer, retrieving instructions of the kernel from an instruction cache by the sequencer, repeatedly execu...