ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,580, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Stashing specific merge end trigger for stashing merged data" was invented by Tiago Rogerio Muck (Austin, Texas), Joshua Randall (Austin, Texas), Thomas Philip Speier (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Alexander Alfred Hornung (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a merging condition is present, first processing element circuitry is responsive to control signals received the decoding of N data update instructions that each specify updated data to be made available for stashing to buffer the updated data. When the merging condition is no longer ...