ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,867, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Processor with hardware pipeline" was invented by Michael John Livesley (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Alistair Goudie (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a blocking circuit between an upstream section and a downstream section of a hardware pipeline, and control circuitry which triggers the upstream section to process an upstream phase of a first task, with the blocking circuit in an open state whereby first data from the processing of the upstr...