ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,891, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Allocation of store buffer entries" was invented by Ilaria Bosco (Nice, France), Yohan Fernand Fargeix (Nice, France), Geoffray Matthieu Lacourba (Nice, France), Paolo Monti (Quattordio, Italy), Luca Nassi (Antibes, France) and Albin Pierrick Tonnerre (Nice, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, methods, computer-readable media, and computer code are disclosed. An apparatus comprises allocation circuitry configured to allocate store data comprising N portions in a store buffer. The store buffer comprises a data buffer configured to hold ...