US Patent Issued to Tenstorrent USA on July 28 for "Parallel index determination for compression instructions using prefix sums in a processing pipeline" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,860, issued on July 28, was assigned to Tenstorrent USA Inc..

"Parallel index determination for compression instructions using prefix sums in a processing pipeline" was invented by Alexander C. Rucker (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Dongjie Xie (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to efficient compression instruction handling in a processing pipeline are disclosed herein. A processing pipeline may accept a mask vector from a first register, the mask vector including a set of set bits, and may accept a payload from a second register. The processing pipeline may determine a set of prefix sums for a set of...