ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,032, issued on July 22, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hot loadable programmable state machine" was invented by Siddharth K. Shah (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Viswanath Mohan (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes a debug circuit and a controller. The debug circuit corresponds to a programmable state machine for responding to trigger conditions based on processor events. The controller is configured to receive a hot loadable patch for a processor firmware, apply the hot loadable patch to reprogram a programmable state machine for monitoring processor events,...