ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,991, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Apparatus and method for performing accumulation operations" was invented by Sangwon Ha (Cambridge, Great Britain), Neil Burgess (Cardiff, Great Britain) and Partha Prasun Maji (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has processing circuitry to perform an accumulation operation in which a first addend is added to a second addend. The apparatus has storage circuitry to store the second addend in a plurality of lanes, each lane having a significance different to that of each other lane. Each lane within at least a subset of the l...