ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,221, issued on March 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Circuitry and method for instruction execution in dependence upon trigger conditions" was invented by Mbou Eyole (Soham, Great Britain), Giacomo Gabrielli (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Balaji Venu (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry comprises processing circuitry configured to execute program instructions in dependence upon respective trigger conditions matching a current trigger state and to set a next trigger state in response to program instruction execution; the processing circuitry comprising: instruction storage confi...