US Patent Issued to Arm on Nov. 25 for "Processing apparatus, method and computer program for a vector combining instruction" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,501, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Processing apparatus, method and computer program for a vector combining instruction" was invented by David Hennah Mansell (Norwich, Great Britain) and Eric Biscondi (Roquefort les Pins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a processing apparatus, method and computer program. The apparatus comprising: decode circuitry to decode instructions; and processing circuitry to apply vector processing operations specified by the instructions. The decode circuitry is configured to, in response to a vector combining instruction specifying a pluralit...