ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,855, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Coprocessor operation bundling" was invented by Aditya Kesiraju (Los Gatos, Calif.), Brett S. Feero (Austin, Texas), Nikhil Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Viney Gautam (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a processor includes a buffer in an interface unit. The buffer may be used to accumulate coprocessor instructions to be transmitted to a coprocessor. In an embodiment, the processor issues the coprocessor instructions to the buffer when ready to be issued to the coprocessor. The interface unit may accumulate the coprocessor instru...