ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,364, issued on June 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performing a read operation and a clear operation in a late select array in the same clock cycle" was invented by Silke Penth (Holzgerlingen, Germany), Harry Barowski (Schoenaich, Germany), Amira Rozenfeld (Rochester, Minn.) and Simon Brandl (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing a read operation and a clear operation in a late select array in the same clock cycle, including: receiving, for a late select array stored in memory of a processor, a read operation instruction and a clear operation instruction; executing both the read op...