ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,024, issued on July 21, was assigned to Primis Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Pseudocode to hardware description language (HDL) translation" was invented by Valerio Tenace (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is described for translating natural language to a hardware description language (HDL). The method can include receiving a plurality of pseudocode statements that include natural-language terms for a high-level representation of hardware behavior. Another operation may be extracting context information from the pseudocode statements based in part on context relationships defined in the plurality of pseudocode stat...