ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,071, issued on April 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Register addressing information for data transfer instruction" was invented by Nigel John Stephens (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jelena Milanovic (Sophia Antipolis, France) and David Hennah Mansell (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transfer instruction is provided which specifies register addressing information for identifying a target portion of the register storage. In response to the data transfer instruction, instruction decoding circuitry controls processing circuitry to perform a data transfer operation to transfer data to ...