ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,805, issued on July 15, was assigned to AzurEngine Technologies Zhuhai Inc. (Zhuhai, China).

"Vectorized scalar processor for executing scalar instructions in multi-threaded computing" was invented by Toshio Nagata (Lake Elsinore, Calif.), Yuan Li (San Diego) and Jianbin Zhu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processors, systems and methods are provided for thread level parallel processing. A processor may include a sequencer and a plurality of columns of vector processing units coupled to the sequencer. The sequencer may include a scalar instruction decoder, a vector instruction decoder, and a plurality of scalar processors c...