ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,236, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Synchronous hardware accelerator interface" was invented by Martin Recktenwald (Schoenaich, Germany), Christian Jacobi (West Park, N.Y.), Brenton Belmar (New Paltz, N.Y.), Christian Borntraeger (Stuttgart, Germany), Ulrich Weigand (Tuebingen, Germany), Gregory William Alexander (Pflugerville, Texas), Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Christian Gerhard Zoellin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operation of an accelerator of a computing environment is invoked based on storing data to be used by the accelerator in a selec...