US Patent Issued to Arm on Nov. 3 for "Compare command" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,239, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Compare command" was invented by Matthew James Horsnell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Philip Speier (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Richard Roy Grisenthwaite (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises decoding circuitry to decode a compare-and-conditional-add command identifying a target address, compare data value, and addend data value. Processing circuitry is responsive to the compare-and-conditional-add command to trigger an atomic set of operations to: read a target data value from a storage location corresponding to the...