ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,645, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device, method and system to capture or restore microarchitectural state of a processor core" was invented by Niranjan Soundararajan (Bengaluru, India) and Sreenivas Subramoney (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for efficiently saving and recovering state of a processor core. In an embodiment, a processor core fetches and decodes a first instruction to generate a first decoded instruction, wherein the first instruction comprises a first opcode which corresponds to one or more components of the processor core. Execution ...