ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,261, issued on May 19, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Selecting a candidate consumer instruction based on an observed instruction having a dependency marked source operand from producer data of a producer instruction" was invented by Alexander Cole Shulyak (Austin, Texas), Devin S Lafford (Austin, Texas), Scott Courtland Hadley (Austin, Texas), William James McAvoy (Raleigh, N.C.) and Brian Michael Stempel (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relationship table stores a plurality of producer-consumer relationships defining associations between producers and consumers, wherein a source operand of a con...