ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,015, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable prediction engine for general processor counting" was invented by Shuai Che (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jieming Yin (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for determining a derived counter value based on a hardware performance counter. Example devices include input circuitry configured to input a hardware performance counter value; counter engine circuitry configured to determine the derived counter value by applying a model to the hardware performance counter value; and output circuitry configur...