US Patent Issued to Apple on April 29 for "Operation fusion for instructions bridging execution unit types" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,066, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Operation fusion for instructions bridging execution unit types" was invented by Zhaoxiang Jin (Austin, Texas), Francesco Spadini (Sunset Valley, Texas), Skanda K. Srinivasa (Austin, Texas) and Milos Becvar (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that relate to fusing operations for execution of certain instructions. A processor may include a first execution circuit, of a first type, coupled to a first register file, a second execution circuit, of a second type, coupled to a second register file and a load/store circuit coupled...