ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,608, issued on March 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods and systems for data transfer" was invented by John David Robson (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Kevin Petit (Great Wilbraham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus comprising: instruction decoding circuitry; data storage; and processing circuitry to process data responsive to an instruction decoded by instruction decoding circuitry configured to, responsive to a data transfer instruction specifying a data source and a region of the source to perform data transfer, control processing circuitry to: when the data transf...