ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,767, issued on July 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Data processing apparatus, method and virtual machine" was invented by Michael Jean Sole (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Cedric Denis Robert Airaud (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry to execute processing instructions, the processing circuitry comprising: a set of physical registers; instruction decoder circuitry to decode processing instructions; detector circuitry to detect groups of instructions which comply with a conflict condition, in which a group of instructions complies...