ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,587, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).
"Variable width barrel shifter" was invented by Ryan W. Hinton (Erda, Utah), Scott C. Smedley (West Jordan, Utah) and Joshua D. Gunn (Farmington, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable width barrel shifter. The variable width barrel shifter includes a first barrel shifter configured to receive a data vector of width M as input. The variable width barrel shifter further includes a second barrel shifter configured to receive the data vector of width M as input. The variable width barrel shifter includes an element-wise multiplexer coupled to t...