ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,066, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Execution state management" was invented by Kin Hing Leung (Cupertino, Calif.), Manish K. Shah (Austin, Texas), Ram Sivaramakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.) and Raghu Prabhakar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first coarse-grained reconfigurable (CGR) processor including first and second CGR arrays. A second CGR processor includes third and fourth CGR arrays. Each CGR array includes an address generator and coalescing unit (AGCU) designated as an array master AGCU (AMAGCU). The first CGR array AGCU is also designated as...