ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,251, issued on May 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Vector reverse" was invented by Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas) and Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processors and methods reverse source data in response to a vector reverse instruction. In an implementation, a processor comprises an instruction fetch unit; and a datapath that includes a register file that includes a source register and a destination register; and a set of functional units. The instruction fetch unit receives a vector reverse instruction that specifies a single vector reverse operation to be executed in...