US Patent Issued to Simplex Micro on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus for a scalable microprocessor with time counter" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,412, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Simplex Micro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for a scalable microprocessor with time counter" 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 at least one execution slice that is comprised of an instruction decode unit, a time-resource matrix unit, an issue unit, an execution queue, and a functional unit. An instruction is issued to the execution queue to execute at a future time depending on the availability of resources specified in the time-resource matrix, wherein the future time is a time defined by a time c...