ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,609, issued on March 3, was assigned to Simplex Micro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Microprocessor with apparatus and method for handling of instructions with long throughput" was invented by Thang Minh Tran (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a time counter and a time-resource matrix and statically dispatches instructions if the resources are available based on data stored in the time-resource matrix. Execution times for the instructions use a time count from the time counter to specify when the instructions may be provided to an execution pipeline. The execution of a second instruction to a functional unit m...