ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,921, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Data processing systems" was invented by Jussi Tuomas Pennala (Oulu, Finland), Henrik Nils-Sture Olsson (Lund, Sweden), Richard Bramley (Lund, Sweden) and Nicholas John Nelson Murphy (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system that comprises plural processing units is disclosed. The system includes functional units, the functional units having different processing capacities. A set of one or more processing units can operate in combination with one of the functional units according to a processing capacity required for th...