ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,681, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nasdaq Technology AB (Stockholm).

"Method and devices for controlling operations of a central processing unit" was invented by Hakan Winbom (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control circuitry controls the operations of a central processing unit, CPU, which is associated with a nominal clock frequency. The CPU is further coupled to an I/O range and configured to deliver input to an application. The control circuitry controls the CPU to poll the I/O range for input to the application. The control circuitry also monitors whether or not each poll results in input to the application...