ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,973, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Technique for handling data elements stored in an array storage" was invented by Arnaud Philippe Claude Grasset (Biot, France) and Jelena Milanovic (Biot, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided comprising processing circuitry to perform operations, instruction decoder circuitry to decode instructions to control the processing circuitry to perform the operations specified by the instructions, and array storage comprising storage elements to store data elements. The array storage is arranged to store at least one two dimensional array ...