US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 7 for "Selecting an epilogue vectorization factor for use in computer processing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,750, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Selecting an epilogue vectorization factor for use in computer processing" was invented by Bardia Mahjour (Newmarket, Canada), Ettore Tiotto (Whitby, Canada) and Wai Hung Tsang (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vectorization factor to be used in vectorization of an epilogue loop in program code is automatically selected. The automatically selecting includes selecting the vectorization factor from a plurality of candidate vectorization factors based on one or more considerations relating to vectorizing the epilogue loop. The ve...