US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS, STMicroelectronics International on Sept. 9 for "Programmable hardware accelerator controller" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,696, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Programmable hardware accelerator controller" was invented by Paolo Sergio Zambotti (Milan), Thomas Boesch (Rovio, Switzerland), Giuseppe Desoli (San Fermo Della Battaglia, Italy), Wolfgang Johann Betz (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and David Siorpaes (Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a host processor, a memory, a hardware accelerator and a configuration controller. The host processor, in operation, controls execution of a multi-stage processing task. The mem...