US Patent Issued to XMOS on Aug. 25 for "Rotating accumulator" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,870, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to XMOS LTD (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Rotating accumulator" was invented by Hendkik Lambertus Muller (Cumbria, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit for generating an output vector is provided. The processing unit comprises an output vector register and a vector unit and is configured to execute machine code instructions, each instruction being an instance of a predefined set of instruction types in an instruction set of the processing unit. The instruction set includes a vector processing instruction defined by a corresponding opcode, which causes the processing unit to:...