US Patent Issued to Arm on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus and method in which control functions and synchronization events are performed" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,055, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method in which control functions and synchronization events are performed" was invented by Timothy Hayes (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Alejandro Rico Carro (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus comprises a plurality of processing elements; and control circuitry to communicate with the plurality of processing elements by a data communication path; the control circuitry being configured, in response to a request issued by a given processing element of the plurality of processing elements, to initiate a hybrid operation by iss...