US Patent Issued to GSI Technology on Aug. 25 for "Compiler for a parallel processor" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,871, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GSI Technology Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Compiler for a parallel processor" was invented by Brian Beckman (Newcastle, Wash.) and John D. Cook (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for concurrently performing multiple computations in an associative processing unit (APU) includes having data in two matrices, representing data in two portions of a memory array of the APU, creating a Tartan matrix by computing an outer product between a first bit vector indicating selected rows and a second bit vector indicating selected columns, the Tartan matrix representing data stored in a third por...