US Patent Issued to Arm on Oct. 20 for "Pre-processed operand data buffer" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,554, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Pre-processed operand data buffer" was invented by Xiaoyang Shen (Valbonne, France), Cedric Denis Robert Airaud (Saint Laurent du Var, France), Shun Wan (Cambridge, Great Britain), Zichao Xie (Cambourne, Great Britain) and Jun Huang (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Execution circuitry executes, in response to an instruction referencing a given source register of a register file, a data processing operation on pre-processed operand data obtained after a pre-processing action has been performed using stored operand data from the given ...