ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,713, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tenstorrent USA Inc..
"Network-on-chip multicasting with packet specific exclusion encoding" was invented by Ivan Matosevic (Toronto), Derek Kwan (Toronto) and Bo Qin (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for transmitting multicast messages through a network-on-chip device. Compact descriptions of target addressed nodes in the network can be included with each message for efficient routing. Sets of nodes to be excluded from receiving the message for further processing can also be specified and transmitted with each message, adding minimal overhead yet providi...