ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,640, issued on Sept. 8.

"Techniques for optimizing store of common values to memory structures" was invented by Jonathan Christopher Perry (Portland, Ore.), David Paul Turley (Portland, Ore.) and Benjamin Crawford Chaffin (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for optimizing store of common values to memory structures. In an aspect, a method for instruction decoding may include obtaining a store instruction that involves two or more registers. The method may include determining that at least one register of the two or more registers comprises an all-zeros value. The method may also include decoding th...