ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,502, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Method for performing random read access to a block of data using parallel LUT read instruction in vector processors" was invented by Jayasree Sankaranarayanan (Kerala, India) and Dipan Kumar Mandal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to the problem of paralleling random read access within a reasonably sized block of data for a vector SIMD processor. The invention sets up plural parallel look up tables, moves data from main memory to each plural parallel look up table and then employs a look up table read instruction to ...