US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 20 for "Inserting null vectors into a stream of vectors" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,196, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Inserting null vectors into a stream of vectors" was invented by Asheesh Bhardwaj (Allen, Texas), William Franklin Leven (Dallas), Son Hung Tran (Murphy, Texas) and Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software instructions are executed on a processor within a computer system to configure a streaming engine with stream parameters to define a multidimensional array. The stream parameters define a size for each dimension of the multidimensional array, a null vector count (N), and a selected dimension. Data is fetched from ...