US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on Dec. 23 for "Stride length predicate creation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,972, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Stride length predicate creation" was invented by John L. Redford (Arlington, Mass.) and Michael G. Perkins (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for creating a single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) processor predicate based on stride length are described herein. When an instruction for a SIMD processor is received, and the instruction has a specified stride length, a predicate memory can be read to obtain a current predicate. A new predicate can be determined based on the stride length and ...