ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,195, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Instruction set for min-max operations" was invented by Menachem Adelman (Modi'in, Israel), Amit Gradstein (Binyamina, Israel), Cristina Anderson (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Marius Cornea-Hasegan (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for instructions for min-max operations are described. An example apparatus comprises decoder circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to include fields for identifiers of a first source operand, a second source operand, an a destination operand, a field for an immediate operand, and a field...