ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,595, issued on April 7, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Subscription to sync zones" was invented by Stephen Felix (Bristol, Great Britain) and Richard Osborne (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of configurable sync groupings (which may be referred to as sync zones) are defined. Any of the processors may belong to any of the sync zones. Each of the processor comprises a register indicating to which of the sync zones it belongs. If a processor does not belong to a sync zone, it continually asserts a sync request for that sync zone to the sync controller. If a processor does belong to ...