US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 28 for "System and method to control the number of active vector lanes in a processor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,740, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"System and method to control the number of active vector lanes in a processor" 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 embodiment, a circuit includes a data path including at least a first lane of a first width and a second lane of a second, larger, width; an execution unit to execute a first instruction on data of the first width or less using the first lane, and to execute a second instruction on data greater than the first width and less than or equal to the ...