ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,865, issued on April 7, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Build flow for implementing artificial intelligence applications in programmable integrated circuits" was invented by Mohammed Bader Alam (San Jose, Calif.), Goutham Pocklassery (Longmont, Colo.), Ravishankar Menon (Bengaluru, India), Sumit Nagpal (Hyderabad, India), Mahesh Suresh Mahadurkar (Wani, India) and Padmini Gopalakrishnan (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design for a programmable integrated circuit (IC) is synthesized and includes an inference engine and a data transformer. A portion of the design including the data transformer is des...