US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Gather buffer management for unaligned and gather load operations" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,688, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Gather buffer management for unaligned and gather load operations" was invented by Kimberly M. Fernsler (Cedar Park, Texas), Bryan Lloyd (Austin, Texas), David A. Hrusecky (Cedar Park, Texas) and David Campbell (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system, processor, programming instructions and/or method for managing operations of a gather buffer for a processor core load storage unit. The processor core includes a processing pipeline having one or more execution units for processing unaligned load instructions that exe...