ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,091, issued on April 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Methods and apparatus for context switching" was invented by Eric Kunze (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jared Corey Smolens (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aaron DeBattista (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Elliot Maurice Simon Rosemarine (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to apparatus comprising execution circuitry comprising at least one execution unit to execute program instructions, and control circuitry. The control circuitry receives a stream of processing instructions, and issues each received instruction to one of said at lea...