US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Sorting elements in a memory array by comparing element vectors" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,366, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Sorting elements in a memory array by comparing element vectors" was invented by Fabrizio Cabaleiro (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising comparing pairs of elements in an array. The method comprises generating two new vectors from an original array in memory, each comprising one part of each pair to be compared. The two new vectors are compared to generate a mask which indicates which of each pair of elements is less. Based on the mask, elements of the vectors can be swapped as necessary. Th...