US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Coalescing adjacent gather/scatter operations" (California, Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,774, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Coalescing adjacent gather/scatter operations" was invented by Andrew T. Forsyth (Kirkland, Wash.), Brian J. Hickmann (Sherwood, Ore.), Jonathan C. Hall (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Christopher J. Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a processor includes an instruction decoder to decode a first instruction to gather data elements from memory, the first instruction having a first operand specifying a first storage location and a second operand specifying a first memory address storing a plurality of data elements. Th...