US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 17 for "Nested loop control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,284, issued on June 17, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Nested loop control" was invented by Kai Chirca (Dallas), Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas), Todd T. Hahn (Sugar Land, Texas) and Alan L. Davis (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compiling and executing a nested loop includes initializing a nested loop controller with an outer loop count value and an inner loop count value. The nested loop controller includes a predicate FIFO. The method also includes coalescing the nested loop and, during execution of the coalesced nested loop, causing the nested loop controller to popula...