ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,774, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vector processor utilizing massively fused operations" was invented by Joseph Williams (Holmdel, N.J.), Zoran Zivkovic (Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Jian-Guo Chen (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Hong Wan (Allentown, Pa.), David Dougherty (Allentown, Pa.) and Jay O'neill (Nesquehoning, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for the use of fused vector processor instructions by a vector processor architecture. Each fused vector processor instruction may include a set of fields associated with individual vector processing instructions. The vector pro...