ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,693, issued on July 1, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Monitor exclusive instruction" was invented by Matthew James Horsnell (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises an instruction decoder 20 and processing circuitry 22. Monitoring circuitry 36 monitors one or more events indicative of a potential update to data associated with any of a monitored set of addresses, and makes accessible to software executing on the processing circuitry 22 a monitoring reporting indication indicative of whether any events has occurred for at least one of the monitored set of addresses. In respo...