ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,142, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Chips supporting constant time program control of nested loops" was invented by Arnon Amir (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Stephen Cassidy (San Jose, Calif.), Nathaniel Joseph McClatchey (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas), Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.) and Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chips supporting constant time program control of nested loops are provided. In various embodiments, a chip comprises at least one arithmetic-logic computing unit and a controller operatively coupled to ...