US Patent Issued to Tesla on Oct. 28 for "Instruction set architecture for a vector computational unit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,739, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Instruction set architecture for a vector computational unit" was invented by Debjit Das Sarma (San Jose, Calif.), Emil Talpes (San Mateo, Calif.) and Peter Joseph Bannon (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microprocessor system comprises a vector computational unit and a control unit. The vector computational unit includes a plurality of processing elements. The control unit is configured to provide at least a single processor instruction to the vector computational unit. The single processor instruction specifies a plurality of component instruction...