US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for vector sorting using vector permutation logic" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,895, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and apparatus for vector sorting using vector permutation logic" was invented by Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas) and Mujibur Rahman (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor and a vector sort instruction for the processor to execute are provided, in which the vector sort instructions includes instructions for comparing a first element of a set of vector elements of a vector to a remainder of the set of vector elements; determining, based on the comparing, a control vector that specifies a respective sorted position for each e...