ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,631, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Assigning workloads to physical resources in spatial architectures" was invented by Fanny Nina Paravecino (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Eric Davies (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Abhishek Dilip Kulkarni (San Jose, Calif.), Md Aamir Raihan (Toronto), Ankit More (San Mateo, Calif.), Aayush Ankit (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Torsten Hoefler (Pfaeffikon, Swaziland) and Douglas Christopher Burger (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations of a workload are assigned to physical resources of a physical device array. The workload includes a graph of op...