US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 27 for "Method and apparatus for performing reduction operations on a plurality of associated data element values" (California, Oregon, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,018, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for performing reduction operations on a plurality of associated data element values" was invented by Christopher J. Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jonathan D. Pearce (Hillsboro, Ore.), Guei-Yuan Lueh (San Jose, Calif.), ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (Chandler, Ariz.), Jorge E. Parra (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.), Krishna N. Vinod (San Jose, Calif.) and Ronen Zohar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments detailed herein relate to reduction operations on a plurality of data element values...