ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,060, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Instruction fusion" was invented by Francesco Spadini (Sunset Valley, Texas), Skanda K. Srinivasa (Austin, Texas), Reena Panda (Cedar Park, Texas), Brian T. Mokrzycki (Portland, Ore.), Haoyan Jia (Ellicott City, Md.) and Zhaoxiang Jin (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that relate to executing pairs of instructions. A processor may include fusion detector circuitry configured to detect a pair of fetched instructions and fuse the pair of fetched instructions into a fused instruction operation, and execution circuitry coupled to t...