ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,119, issued on May 19, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Bitstream initialization for reconfigurable hardware" was invented by Swarup Bhunia (Gainesville, Fla.) and Pravin Dasharth Gaikwad (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are directed to generating on-chip bitstreams on reconfigurable hardware. The system comprises a built-in bitstream initialization (BIBI) module configured to generate one or more bitstreams on a semiconductor device. The BIBI module comprising a sequence generator configured to generate a sequence of values for each of the one or...