US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 28 for "Convert instruction with overflow result control" (German, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,859, issued on July 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Convert instruction with overflow result control" was invented by Kerstin Claudia Schelm (Stuttgart, Germany), Bruce Conrad Giamei (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), Timothy J Slegel (Staatsburg, N.Y.), Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Reid Copeland (Ontario, Canada), Xin Guo (Toronto), Michael Klein (Schoenaich, Germany), Petra Leber (Ehningen, Germany) and Andreas Wagner (Wildberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instruction configured to perform data conversion is executed. The executing the instruction includes determining that ...