ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,207, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Processor selectively executing first instruction using non-pre-processed data or second instruction using pre-processed data" was invented by Sota Sakashita (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes an operation executer configured to execute pipeline processing of an operation instruction, wherein the operation executer includes a first register configured to hold data to be used for an operation; a pre-processor configured to pre-process data held in the first register; a second register configured to hold the data pre-processed b...