ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,732, issued on July 14, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Determination of a linear relationship based on producer-consumer pairs" was invented by William James Mcavoy (Raleigh, N.C.), Brian Michael Stempel (Raleigh, N.C.), Alexander Cole Shulyak (Austin, Texas), Devin S. Lafford (Austin, Texas) and Scott Courtland Hadley (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A producer-consumer relationship is stored. The producer-consumer relationship defines an association between a producer instruction and at least one consumer instruction, wherein a consumer value of the at least one consumer instruction is generated ...