US Patent Issued to Altera on Dec. 30 for "Hazard mitigation for lightweight processor cores" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,122, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hazard mitigation for lightweight processor cores" was invented by Martin Langhammer (Alderbury, Great Britain) and Gregg William Baeckler (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuits that include lightweight processor cores are provided. Each processor core may be configured to execute a series of instructions. At least one of the instructions may include an embedded delay field with a value specifying the amount of time that instruction needs to wait before proceeding to the next instruction to avoid a data hazard. The value of the del...