ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,166, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Loop pipelining semantics using structured control flow (SCF) operations with explicitly passed-in asynchronous tokens" was invented by Erwei Wang (London), Jeffrey Fifield (Longmont, Colo.), Philip James-Roxby (Longmont, Colo.), Samuel R. Bayliss (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zachary Blair (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a method includes receiving, by a compiler of a host of a computing system, input code, generating, by the compiler, pipelined input code by adding first tokens in a loop iteration argument field of a loop in ...