US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 4 for "Controlling instruction issue rate using credit-based mechanisms in processor devices" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,435, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Controlling instruction issue rate using credit-based mechanisms in processor devices" was invented by Vinay Patel (Stouffville, Canada), Nitin Makhija (San Jose, Calif.) and Pradeep Kanapathipillai (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controlling instruction issue rate using credit-based mechanisms in processor devices is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a processor device comprises a credit logic circuit that is communicatively coupled to a reservation station (RS) circuit, and that comprises a credit counter. The credit logic circuit receives an instru...