ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,070, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Program counter zero-cycle loads" was invented by Muawya M. Al-Otoom (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Conrado Blasco (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Deepankar Duggal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ethan R. Schuchman (Saratoga, Calif.), Ian D. Kountanis (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kulin N. Kothari (Cupertino, Calif.) and Nikhil Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a processor core that includes an instruction decode circuit and a control circuit. The instruction decode circuit is configured to decode instructions, including a plurality of store instructions ...