ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,624, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Invariant statistics-based configuration of processor components" was invented by Alok Garg (Boxborough, Mass.), Paul Keltcher (Boxborough, Mass.), Mayank Chhablani (Boxborough, Mass.) and Furkan Eris (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a hardware processor to dynamically configure a component that improves a processor function with a configuration setting based on invariant statistics. The invariant statistics are generated by execution of the instructions from one or more applications and are independent of th...