US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Oct. 6 for "Dataflow-based general-purpose processor architectures with feedforward register lanes" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,739, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Dataflow-based general-purpose processor architectures with feedforward register lanes" was invented by Nam Sung Kim (Champaign, Ill.) and Dong Kai Wang (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dataflow-based general-purpose processor architecture and its method are disclosed. A circuit for the dataflow-based general-purpose processor architecture includes multiple processing elements (PEs) corresponding to multiple assigned central processing unit (CPU) instructions in program order, a register file, and multiple feedforw...