ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,449, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for handling stashing transactions" was invented by Tessil Thomas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Yuval Elad (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thanunathan Rangarajan (Bangalore, India) and Carlos Garcia-Tobin (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided, the apparatus comprising: interconnect circuitry to couple a device to one or more processing elements, each processing element operating in a trusted execution environment; and secure stashing decision circuitry to receive stashing transactions ...