ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,553, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Multi-condition branch instruction for conditional branch operations" was invented by Alexander Tessarolo (Lindfield, Australia) and Venkatesh Natarajan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the conditional execution of program code. In an example embodiment, a system including instruction fetch circuitry, decoder circuitry, and multi-condition branch circuitry is provided. The instruction fetch circuitry is configured to fetch a multi-condition branch instruction (MCBI) from memory. The MCBI id...