ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,673, issued on April 7, was assigned to quadric.io Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for implementing directional operand broadcast and multiply-accumulate execution using a configurable patch mesh in a multi-core processing array of an integrated circuit" was invented by Thomas Ng (Burlingame, Calif.), Michael Leonard (Burlingame, Calif.), Aman Sikka (Burlingame, Calif.), Mark Morra (Burlingame, Calif.) and Nigel Drego (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is disclosed for operand propagation and accumulation within a processing array of an integrated circuit using overlapping patch regions. Th...