ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,856, issued on March 4, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Data processors" was invented by Tord Kvestad Oygard (Troms og Finnmark, Norway), Olof Henrik Uhrenholt (Lomma, Sweden) and Andreas Due Engh-Halstvedt (Trondheim, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processor comprising an execution engine 51 for executing programs for execution threads and one or more caches 48, 49 operable to store data values for use when executing program instructions to perform processing operations for execution threads. The data processor further comprises a thread throttling control unit 54 configured to monitor the operati...