ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,462, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Instruction with a preserve sign control" was invented by Petra Leber (Ehningen, Germany), Kerstin Claudia Schelm (Stuttgart, Germany), Michael Klein (Schoenaich, Germany), Andreas Wagner (Wildberg, Germany), Reid Copeland (Ontario, Canada), Xin Guo (Toronto), Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Timothy Slegel (Staatsburg, N.Y.) and Bruce Conrad Giamei (Lagrangeville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instruction is executed to obtain a result that includes an output value and a result sign code. At least one operation is perfor...