ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,090, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Tracking buffer reduction and reuse in a processor" was invented by Rune Holm (Oslo, Norway), Jens Olson (San Jose, Calif.), Jared Corey Smolens (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dominic Hugo Symes (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Elliot Maurice Simon Rosemarine (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor comprising: a handling unit; a plurality of components each configured to execute a function. The handling unit can receive a task comprising operations on data in a coordinate space having N dimensions, receive a data structure describing execution of the task ...