ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,370, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Register rename for deterministically updated register" was invented by Deepankar Duggal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard F. Russo (San Jose, Calif.) and Ian D. Kountanis (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Register renaming for a deterministically updated register is disclosed. A processor circuit is configured to operate according to an instruction set architecture that defines a plurality of architectural registers. A register file circuit includes a plurality of physical registers having a first subset dedicated for use in renaming a particular arc...