ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,455, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Coarse-grained reconfigurable processor array with optimized buffers" was invented by Nathan Francis Sheeley (Austin, Texas), Weihang Fan (Mountain View, Calif.), Matheen Musaddiq (Austin, Texas) and Ram Sivaramakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for transforming a high-level program into configuration data for a coarse-grained reconfigurable (CGR) data processor with an array of CGR units. The high-level program is transformed into a dataflow graph that includes multiple interdependent asynchronously perfor...