ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,055, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Repeat instruction for loading and/or executing code in a claimable repeat cache a specified number of times" was invented by Alan Graham Alexander (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain), Simon Christian Knowles (Corston, Great Britain), Mrudula Chidambar Gore (Bath, Great Britain) and Jonathan Ferguson (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor is disclosed including: a barrel-threaded execution unit for executing concurrent threads, and a repeat cache shared between the concurrent threads. The processor's instruction set includes a...