ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,971, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Compiling an application having polynomial operations to produce directed acyclic graphs having commands to execute in a near memory processing device" was invented by Yongmo Park (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Subhankar Pal (White Plains, N.Y.), Aporva Amarnath (White Plains, N.Y.), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.) and Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for compiling an application having polynomial operations to produce directed acyclic graphs having...