ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,747, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to select and store data elements from two source two-dimensional arrays indicated by permute control elements in a result two-dimensional array" was invented by ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (Chandler, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for permuting two source two dimensional (2D) arrays are described. A processor of an aspect includes a decoder circuitry to decode an instruction having an opcode. The instruction may indicate a first source 2D array, a second source 2D array, and permute control eleme...