US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 30 for "Vector test decimal instruction for validity testing" (German, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,127, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vector test decimal instruction for validity testing" was invented by Michael Klein (Schoenaich, Germany), Kerstin Claudia Schelm (Stuttgart, Germany), Petra Leber (Ehningen, Germany), Andreas Wagner (Wildberg, Germany), Bruce Conrad Giamei (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), Timothy Slegel (Staatsburg, N.Y.), Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Reid Copeland (Ontario, Canada) and Xin Guo (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instruction to perform validity testing of a source value is executed. The executing the instruction includes obtai...