ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,744, issued on June 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for hardware gather optimization" was invented by Ashish Jha (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for hardware gather optimization can include identifying, by at least one processor, one or more gather instructions that retrieve data from contiguous memory locations. The method can additionally include converting, by the at least one processor, the one or more gather instructions into one or more strided load instructions in response to the identification. The method can also include loadin...