ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,729, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof" was invented by Robert C. Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Jesus Corbal San Adrian (King City, Ore.), Roger Espasa Sans (Barcelona, Spain), Robert D. Cavin (San Francisco), Bret L. Toll (Hillsboro, Ore.), Santiago Galan Duran (Molins de Rei, Spain), Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier (Austin, Texas), Sridhar Samudrala (Austin, Texas), Milind Baburao Girkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edward Thomas Grochowski (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Cannon Hall (Hillsboro, Ore.), Dennis R. Bradford (Portland, Ore.), Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (Chandler, Ariz.), James C Abel (Phoe...