ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,637, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to XCENA Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Allocating cores to empty programming engines using a memory access device" was invented by Ji Hun Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Do Hun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As one aspect of the present disclosure, a memory access device is disclosed. The device comprises: a command manager configured to receive and manage one or more commands from a plurality of cores; a programming engine unit comprising one or more programming engines configured to perform calculations in response to the one or more commands; and a direct memor...