ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,121, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scalable and configurable clustered systolic array" was invented by Chunhui Mei (San Diego), Jiasheng Chen (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Ben J. Ashbaugh (Folsom, Calif.), Fangwen Fu (Folsom, Calif.), Hong Jiang (Los Altos, Calif.), Guei-Yuan Lueh (San Jose, Calif.), Rama S.B. Harihara (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Maxim Kazakov (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable and configurable clustered systolic array is described. An example of apparatus includes a cluster including multiple cores; and a cache memory coupled with the cluster, wherein each core i...