US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Operand selection circuitry" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,725, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Operand selection circuitry" was invented by Anurag Choudhury (Austin, Texas) and Evan R. Lissoos (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed involving selection circuitry for stored operands. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a random-access storage element array and a permute network. The storage element array is configured to store a set of input data to an operation in a set of entries allocated among one or more execution lanes. The permute network is connected to each entry of the set of entries and is configured to select f...