US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 22 for "Controlling the number of powered vector lanes via a register field" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,906, issued on July 22, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Controlling the number of powered vector lanes via a register field" was invented by Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas) and Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a device includes a memory, a register, a data path including a set of lanes, and a processor that executes a program. The following operations are performed in response to execution of the program: write data to a field of the register, in which the data specifies that at least one lane of the set of lanes is powered on; execute an instruction o...