US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 28 for "Nested loop control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,861, issued on July 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Nested loop control" was invented by Kai Chirca (Dallas), Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas), Todd T. Hahn (Sugar Land, Texas) and Alan L. Davis (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nested loop controller includes a first register having a first value initialized to an initial first value, a second register having a second value initialized to an initial second value, and a third register configured as a predicate FIFO, initialized to have a third value. The second value is advanced in response to a tick instruction during execution of ...