MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617093059 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation on July 31, 2026, for Vector Test Decimal Instruction For Validity Testing.

Inventors include Klein, Michael; Schelm, Kerstin; Leber, Petra; Wagner, Andreas; Giamei, Bruce; Slegel, Timothy; Bradbury, Jonathan; Copeland, Reid; and Guo, Xin.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: An instruction to perform validity testing of a source value is executed. The executing the instruction includes obtaining the source value using at least one field of the instruction and obtaining a plurality of test controls using a field of the ...