Patents by Inventor Carl Feyman

Carl Feyman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for interconnecting processors in a hyper-dimensional array
    Patent number: 4805091
    Abstract: A massively parallel processor comprising 65,534 (=2.sup.16) individual processors is organized so that there are 16 (=2.sup.4) individual processors on each of 4,096 (=2.sup.12) integrated circuits. The integrated circuits are interconnected in the form of a Boolean cube of 12 dimensions for routing of message packets. Each circuit board carries 32 (=2.sup.5) integrated circuits and each backplane carries 16 (=2.sup.4) circuit boards. There are eight (=2.sup.3) backplanes advantageously arranged in a cube that is 2.times.2.times.2. Each integrated circuit on a circuit board is connected to five integrated circuits on the same board which are its nearest neighbors in the first five dimensions. Further, each integrated circuit is also connected to four other integrated circuits on different circuit boards, but on the same backplane. Finally, each integrated circuit is also connected to three other integrated circuits, each on a different backplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Thinking Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tamiko Thiel, Richard Clayton, Carl Feyman, W. D. Hillis, Brewster Kahle