ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,832, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Hardware-based trace assist unit" was invented by Howard Michael Haynie (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Raymond Wong (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Deepankar Bhattacharjee (Bangalore, India), Michael James Becht (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Luke Hopkins (Peterborough, N.H.) and Subhasis Samanta (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trace assist unit operable with a plurality of processor cores is described. The trace assist unit comprises a plurality of physical buffers, and loading circuitry and unloading circuitry that are communicatively cou...