US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Oct. 20 for "Methods for gather/scatter operations in a vector processor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,546, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Microchip Technology (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Methods for gather/scatter operations in a vector processor" was invented by Christopher I. W. Norrie (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for gather/scatter operations in a vector processor includes: (a) checking for a read port start signal and when received setting an increment count to zero; (b) initiating a memory read using a port's address register, and setting the increment count to increment count+1; (c) incrementing the port's address register by a port's stride register; (d) checking to see if the increment count is g...