ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,579, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Buffer splitting based on cost" was invented by David Alan Koeplinger (Egg Harbor, N.J.) and Weihang Fan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a user program for execution on a reconfigurable dataflow computing system comprising a plurality of compute units and a plurality of memory units, the plurality of compute units and the plurality of memory units being interconnected. The user program is converted to an intermediate representation comprising a plurality of logical operations, executable via dataflow ...