ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,677, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Gerlingen, Germany).

"N-point complex fourier transform structure having only 2N real multiplies, and other matrix multiply operations" was invented by Paul W. Dent (Pittsboro, N.C.), Frederick Rush (Auburn, Ala.) and Monier Maher (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit chip implementing multiplication of an MxN element matrix with an N-element vector to obtain an M-element product by combining the vector with rows of bits of the same significance selected from the matrix one bit-row at a time to form partial products, exploiting the fact that the same...