ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,389, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Configurable access to a multi-die reconfigurable processor by a virtual function" was invented by Manish K. Shah (Austin, Texas), Paul Jordan (Austin, Texas), Maran Wilson (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ravinder Kumar (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system is presented that includes a communication link, a runtime processor, and one or more reconfigurable processors. A reconfigurable processor includes first and second dies arranged in a package, having respective K and L arrays of coarse-grained reconfigurable (CGR) uni...