ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,916, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Simuli Inc. (S. Delray Beach, Fla.).

"Nonlinear, decentralized processing unit and related systems or methodologies" was invented by Rachel St.Clair (S. Delray Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a processor chip that includes on-chip and off-chip software. The chip is optimized for hyperdimensional, fixed-point vector algebra to efficiently store, process, and retrieve information. A specialized on-chip data-embedding algorithm uses algebraic logic gates to convert off-chip normal data, such as images and spreadsheets, into discrete, abstract vector space where information ...