US Patent Issued to Apple on July 8 for "Preemption techniques for memory-backed registers" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,330, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Preemption techniques for memory-backed registers" was invented by Benjiman L. Goodman (Austin, Texas), Yoong Chert Foo (London), Karl D. Mann (Orlando, Fla.), Terence M. Potter (Austin, Texas), Frank W. Liljeros (Sanford, Fla.) and Jeffrey T. Brady (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to thread preemption in the context of memory-backed registers. In some embodiments, a memory hierarchy includes one or more cache levels and one or more memory circuits. Execution circuitry may operate on operands in architectural register...