US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Sept. 8 for "Reconfigurable, streaming-based clusters of processing elements, and multi-modal use thereof" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,769, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Reconfigurable, streaming-based clusters of processing elements, and multi-modal use thereof" was invented by Michele Rossi (Bareggio, Italy), Giuseppe Desoli (San Fermo Della Battaglia, Italy) and Thomas Boesch (Rovio, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware accelerator includes processing elements of a neural network, each processing element having a memory; a stream switch; stream engines coupled to functional circuits via the stream switch, wherein the stream engines, in operation, generate data streaming requests to stream data...