ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,120, issued on June 23, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device with data processing engine array that enables partial reconfiguration" was invented by Juan J. Noguera Serra (San Jose, Calif.), Sneha Bhalchandra Date (San Jose, Calif.), Jan Langer (Chemnitz, Germany), Baris Ozgul (Dublin) and Goran Hk Bilski (Molndal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor system and an array of data processing engines (DPEs) communicatively coupled to the processor system. Each of the DPEs includes a core and a DPE interconnect. The processor system is configured to transmit configuration data to the a...