ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,185, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Technique for handling ordering constrained access operations" was invented by Simon John Craske (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jacob Eapen (Northstowe, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry is provided to perform operations, along with instruction decoder circuitry to decode instructions to control the processing circuitry to perform the operations specified by the instructions. A set of registers is used to hold data values for access by the processing circuitry. The instruction decoder circuitry is responsive to an ordering ...