ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,788, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Tournament-league mechanisms for comparison based computer operations" was invented by Ramy Masalha (Kafr Qari, Israel), Allon Adir (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Eyal Kushnir (Kfar Vradim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for performing a tournament-league comparison process of a computer function. A request is received to execute the computer function on a vector data structure, where a result of the computer function is provided by executing the tournament-league comparison proce...