ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,157, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Next Silicon Ltd (Givatayim, Israel).

"Non-intrusive processor instrumentation" was invented by Elad Raz (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for non-intrusive processor instrumentation, comprising: one or more hardware processors configured to execute a software program, wherein at least one hardware processor of the one or more hardware processors comprises sampler circuitry configured to sample a plurality of processor internal values, where each processor internal value is a value of one of a plurality of processor state elements, without interrupting execution of the ...