ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,772, issued on July 15.
"Superscalar delay optimization with divided issue queue" was invented by Xiuquan Xu (Anhui, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Superscalar Delay Optimization with Divided Issue Queue, wherein an issue queue is divided into three types, namely, ready queue, wait 1 queue, and wait 2 queue; a length of each type of queue is one-third of a length of the issue queue, so that the delay of scanning the entire issue queue from beginning to end per clock cycle is reduced to one-third."
The patent was filed on July 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/351,765.
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