ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,107, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method" was invented by Herath Mudiyanselage Isuru Prasenajith Herath (Fulbourn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus comprises processing circuitry comprising a processing pipeline to perform data processing operations in response to instructions received as successive fetch groups of instructions, the processing pipeline comprising a plurality of successive pipeline stages; indicator circuitry to associate an indication with instructions for handling by the processing circuitry, the indication associated with a given inst...