US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Encoding and decoding variable length instructions" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,139, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Encoding and decoding variable length instructions" was invented by Simon Thomas Nield (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and James McCarthy (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of encoding and decoding are described which use a variable number of instruction words to encode instructions from an instruction set, such that different instructions within the instruction set may be encoded using different numbers of instruction words. To encode an instruction, the bits within the instruction are re-ordered an...