US Patent Issued to Arm on April 15 for "Masked-vector-comparison instruction" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,420, issued on April 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Masked-vector-comparison instruction" was invented by Jacob Eapen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Matthias Lothar Boettcher (Cambridge, Great Britain), Balaji Venu (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Francois Christopher Jacques Botman (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A masked-vector-comparison instruction specifies a source vector operand comprising a plurality of source data elements, a mask value, and a comparison target operand. In response to the masked-vector-comparison instruction, an instruction decoder 10 controls processing circuitr...