US Patent Issued to Arm on March 3 for "Ring buffer with multiple head pointers" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,712, issued on March 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Ring buffer with multiple head pointers" was invented by Eric Ola Harald Liljedahl (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods of operating such apparatuses are disclosed, where the apparatus provides ring buffer storage to hold queued elements. Multiple head pointers are stored and maintained with respect to the ring buffer, wherein the multiple head pointers have a multiplicity N. When a dequeuing operation is performed with respect to an element queued in the ring buffer, reference is made to a selected head pointer of the multip...