ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,947, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stickification using anywhere padding to accelerate data manipulation" was invented by Swagath Venkataramani (White Plains, N.Y.), Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York), Shubham Jain (Elmsford, N.Y.), Sarada Krithivasan (Chennai, India) and Sanchari Sen (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for efficient realization of memory-bound operations in a computing system by a processor. Data may be read from and written to a memory at a granular level using a stickification operation. One or more regions of acti...