US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 13 for "Register based SIMD lookup table operations" (Washington, Colorado, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,445, issued on May 13, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Register based SIMD lookup table operations" was invented by Gabriel H. Loh (Bellevue, Wash.), Yasuko Eckert (Bellevue, Wash.), Bradford Beckmann (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael Estlick (Ft. Collins, Colo.) and Jay Fleischman (Merrill, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for implementing register based single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) lookup table operations. According to the approach, an instruction set architecture (ISA) can support one or more SIMD instructions that enable vectors or multiple values in source data ...