ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,366, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Integrity checking" was invented by Balaji Venu (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Mbou Eyole (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has processing circuitry to execute instructions. The processing circuitry has calculation circuitry which is responsive to one or more instructions requiring a calculation to be performed to compute the result of the calculation and approximation circuitry which is responsive to said one or more instructions to calculate an approximate result of the calculation independently of the calculation circuit...