US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 4 for "Reservation station with primary and secondary storage circuits for store operations" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,677, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reservation station with primary and secondary storage circuits for store operations" was invented by Amit Kumar (Fremont, Calif.), Brian R. Mestan (Austin, Texas), Mridul Agarwal (Saratoga, Calif.) and Nikhil Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reservation station that includes primary and secondary storage circuits is disclosed. The primary storage circuit may include multiple full entries, while the secondary storage circuit includes multiple store-data entries. A given store-data entry of the multiple store-data entries stores a subset ...