US Patent Issued to GRAPHCORE on Feb. 17 for "Rotating data blocks" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,490, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Rotating data blocks" was invented by Mark Sheppard (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An execution unit performs a byte-wise rotation of an input data block. An input data array receives an input data block. Two first layer multiplexer arrays each receive a first layer data block comprising a respective subset of bytes of the input data block and a first layer control signal, and rotate the first layer data block by an amount indicated by the first layer control signal. The second layer multiplexer array receives a second control si...