US Patent Issued to Arm on Sept. 8 for "Contention hint instruction" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,641, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Contention hint instruction" was invented by Joshua Randall (Austin, Texas), Rajesh Shashi Kumar (Austin, Texas), Eric Ola Harald Liljedahl (Stockholm) and Tiago Rogerio Muck (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises instruction decoding circuitry configured to decode instructions of a program thread executed by a given processor core; and load/store control circuitry configured to select a target point of a memory system hierarchy at which to allocate data for a target cache line specified by a load/store instruction decoded by t...