ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,053, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Predication techniques" was invented by Alejandro Martinez Vicente (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nigel John Stephens (Cambridge, Greece) and Jelena Milanovic (Biot, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods and programs are disclosed relating to the predication of multiple vectors in vector processing. An encoding of predicate information is disclosed which comprises an element size and an element count, wherein the predicate information comprises a multiplicity of consecutive identical predication indicators given by the element count, each ...