US Patent Issued to XMOS on April 21 for "Looping instruction" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,206, issued on April 21, was assigned to XMOS LTD (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Looping instruction" was invented by Hendrik Lambertus Muller (London) and Andrew Stanford-Jason (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor (101) with an instruction set comprising a looping instruction and corresponding method are provided. The looping instruction is defined by a corresponding opcode and comprises a register operand for holding a sequence of subinstructions. The looping instruction causes the processor (101) to: repeatedly execute the looping instruction without incrementing a program counter, each execution of the looping instruct...