US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 1 for "Control flow auto-vectorization using run-time checks and compile-time analysis" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,807, issued on April 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Control flow auto-vectorization using run-time checks and compile-time analysis" was invented by Bangtian Liu (Toronto), Avery Laird (Toronto), Wai Hung Tsang (Markham, Canada), Bardia Mahjour (Newmarket, Canada) and Maryam Dehnavi (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vectorization of program code by way of a method that includes obtaining program code to be compiled. The program code has a loop that includes a control-flow having divergent branch conditions. The method includes compiling the program code to produce compiled code. The co...