US Patent Issued to Altera on March 24 for "Systems and methods for processor circuits" (Canadian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,602, issued on March 24, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for processor circuits" was invented by Eriko Nurvitadhi (Beaverton, Ore.), Martin Langhammer (Salisbury, Great Britain) and Andrew Boutros (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor circuit includes a first front-end circuit for scheduling first instructions for a first program and a second front-end circuit for scheduling second instructions for a second program. A back-end processing circuit processes first operations in the first instructions and second operations in the second instructions. A multi-program scheduler circuit c...