US Patent Issued to Intel on May 26 for "Reducing instrumentation code bloat and performance overheads using a runtime call instruction" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,072, issued on May 26, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reducing instrumentation code bloat and performance overheads using a runtime call instruction" was invented by Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.), Dan Baum (Haifa, Israel), Joseph Cihula (Hillsboro, Ore.), Joao Batista Correa Gomes Moreira (Hillsboro, Ore.), Anjo Lucas Vahldiek-Oberwagner (Portland, Ore.), Scott Constable (Portland, Ore.), Andreas Kleen (Portland, Ore.), Konrad Lai (Vancouver, Wash.), Henrique de Medeiros Kawakami (Seattle) and David M. Durham (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for an instruction for a Runtime Call operati...