US Patent Issued to Intel on May 5 for "Instruction execution that broadcasts and masks data values at different levels of granularity" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,761, issued on May 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Instruction execution that broadcasts and masks data values at different levels of granularity" was invented by Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (Gilbert, Ariz.), Robert Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Jesus Corbal (King City, Ore.), Bret L. Toll (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Mark J. Charney (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is described that includes an execution unit to execute a first instruction and a second instruction. The execution unit includes input register space to store a first data structure to be replicated when executing the first ...