US Patent Issued on April 29 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for precise last branch record event logging" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,072, issued on April 29.

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for precise last branch record event logging" was invented by Jonathan Combs (Austin, Texas), Michael Chynoweth (Placitas, N.M.), Beeman Strong (Portland, Ore.), Charlie Hewett (Bellevue, Wash.), Patrick Konsor (Hillsboro, Ore.), Vidisha Chirra (Austin, Texas), Asavari Paranjape (Austin, Texas) and Ahmad Yasin (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to implement precise last branch record event logging in a processor are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor core includes an execution circuit to execut...