ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,832, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-path routing in a network on chip" was invented by Surya Rajendra Swamy Saranam Chongala (Srikakulam, India), Nikhil Arun Dhume (Hyderbad, India), Krishnan Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.) and Dinesh D. Gaitonde (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a network on chip (NoC) that implements multi-path routing (MPR) between an ingress logic block and an egress logic block. The multiple paths between the ingress and egress logic blocks can be assigned different alias destination IDs corresponding to the same destination ID. The...