ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,402, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Decoding and executing memory command with partial frame data" was invented by Jie Zheng (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Stephen J. Powell (Austin, Texas), Peter Martin Smith (Winchester, Great Britain) and Michael John Palmer (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to decode and execute a memory command with partial frame data is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving the memory command during early cycles of a frame, the memory command being locatable in a template of the frame ...