ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,700, issued on July 14, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selecting intermediate representation transformations for compilations" was invented by Emily Anne Furst (Duvall, Wash.), Robin Conradine Knauerhase (Portland, Ore.), Sangeeta Chowdhary (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michael L Chu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selecting intermediate representation transformation for compilations is described. In accordance with the described techniques, source code is received to be compiled by a compilation system for execution by a processor of hardware. Intermediate representation transformation...