US Patent Issued to Simplex Micro on Feb. 3 for "Executing phantom loops in a microprocessor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,369, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Simplex Micro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Executing phantom loops in a microprocessor" was invented by Thang Minh Tran (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a loop detection unit to detect a phantom-loop based on the resources reserved for execution of the phantom loop. The processor executes the phantom loop by reading source operand data on a first iteration of the loop and writing back data on the last iteration of the loop while allowing instructions after the loop to be concurrently executed."

The patent was filed on April 17, 2023, under Application No. 18/135,481....