ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,578, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Predication methods for vector processors" was invented by Timothy Anderson (University Park, Texas), Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for method for executing instructions in a processor includes receiving a first instruction, receiving a second instruction, identifying a functional unit specified by an opcode contained in an opcode field of the first instruction, selecting a field of the second instruction that contains predicate information based on the identified functional ...