ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,238, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Technique for controlling stashing of data" was invented by Thomas Philip Speier (Wake Forest, N.C.), Klas Magnus Bruce (Leander, Texas) and Andrew Brookfield Swaine (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has decoder circuitry within a first processing element to decode instructions, in order to respond to a sequence of instructions by generating control signals. Processing circuitry within the first processing element is responsive to the control signals to perform operations defined by the sequence of instructions. The decod...