US Patent Issued to Apple on June 24 for "Processor operand management using fusion buffer" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,222, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Processor operand management using fusion buffer" was invented by Ran Aharon Chachick (Seattle), Rajdeep L. Bhuyar (San Jose, Calif.) and Kanghong Yan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed involving operand management using a fusion buffer. A processor includes operand management circuitry, where the operand management circuitry includes a fusion buffer, and execution circuitry. In one embodiment, the operand management circuitry is configured to detect a first storage instruction operation that is executable to store opera...