ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,644, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Selecting an executable operation from a lookup table identified by a conditional instruction and indexed based on combined results of concurrently-computed relational operators" was invented by Nathaniel Joseph McClatchey (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Stephen Cassidy (San Jose, Calif.), Arnon Amir (San Jose, Calif.), Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas), Pallab Datta (San Jose, Calif.) and Rathinakumar Appuswamy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present disclosure, p...