ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,467, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Control register for storing instruction size information" was invented by Omer Lichter (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alon Yaakov (Raanana, Israel) and Nadav Malki (Ashod, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor circuit that includes a plurality of register circuits and an event handler circuit is disclosed. The event handler circuit may detect a processing event that causes the processor circuit to halt execution of a current instruction and transfer control to a kernel. In response to a detection of the processing event, the event handler circuit may store a pro...