ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,592, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Hardware layer-by-layer program control in a reconfigurable dataflow processor" was invented by Manish K. Shah (Austin, Texas), Denis Sokolov (Austin, Texas), Raghu Prabhakar (San Jose, Calif.), Arjun Sabnis (San Francisco), Joshua Earle Polzin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Arnav Goel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable data processor includes a bus system, an array of configurable units, and a configuration load controller connected to the bus system and coupled to a memory. The configuration load controller incorporates a fi...