ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,272, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data synchronization techniques for a hybrid hardware accelerator and programmable processing array architecture" was invented by Kannan Rajamani (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Kameran Azadet (San Ramon, Calif.), Kevin Kinney (Coopersburg, Pa.), Thomas Smith (Colmar, Pa.) and Zoran Zivkovic (Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for the use of a hybrid architecture that combines a programmable processing array and a hardware accelerator. The hybrid architecture functions to maintain synchronization between data samples to be...