ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,720, issued on May 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Look-up table write" was invented by Naveen Bhoria (Plano, Texas), Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Dheera Balasubramanian Samudrala (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital data processor includes an instruction memory storing instructions each specifying a data processing operation and at least one data operand field, an instruction decoder coupled to the instruction memory for sequentially recalling instructions from the instruction memory and determining the data processing operation and the at least one data operand, and at least one op...