US Patent Issued to SiFive on Jan. 28 for "Processing for vector load or store micro-operation with inactive mask elements" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,874, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processing for vector load or store micro-operation with inactive mask elements" was invented by Yueh Chi Wu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for processing of a vector load or store micro-operation with mask information as a no-operation (no-op) when a mask vector for the vector load or store micro-operation has all inactive mask elements or processing vector load or store sub-micro-operation(s) with active mask element(s) are described. An integrated circuit includes a load store unit configured to receive load or store...