ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,242, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Register clearing" was invented by Quentin Eric Nouvel (Antibes, France), Luca Nassi (Antibes, France), Albin Pierrick Tonnerre (Antibes, France) and Geoffray Matthieu Lacourba (Antibes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one register rename table structure comprising rename entries for indicating register mappings between architectural registers and corresponding physical registers, and register rename circuitry to update the register mappings indicated by the rename entries. Rename entries corresponding to at least one s...