ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,669, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to determine execution cost" was invented by Niranjan Hasabnis (Fremont, Calif.), Justin Gottschlich (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jesmin Jahan Tithi (San Jose, Calif.) and Anand Venkat (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to determine execution cost are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; instructions included in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instruction to: cause a plurality of instructions corresponding to a mnemonic to be executed; dete...