ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,099, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Stateful vector group permutation with storage reuse" was invented by Nicolas Remi Brunie (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for stateful vector group permutation with storage reuse. For example, some methods may include expanding an element index from a vector of indices to obtain byte indices for respective bytes of a corresponding element; storing the byte indices in corresponding bytes of an intermediate result operand buffer; updating bits in a completion flags buffer to indicate that the corresponding b...