ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,924, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Register access via a read port" was invented by Xiaoyang Shen (Valbonne, France), Maria Teresa Bevivino (Nice, France), Zichao Xie (Cambourne, Great Britain) and Shun Wan (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, chip-containing products, methods and computer-readable media are disclosed relating to register bank circuitry providing registers holding data values and comprising at least one read port. On receipt of a register selection vector a read address compression procedure is performed on a vector of read addresses. ...