US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 12 for "Processor trace with suppression of periodic timing packets for low density trace sections" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,726, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processor trace with suppression of periodic timing packets for low density trace sections" was invented by Markus Metzger (Ulm, Germany) and Beeman Strong (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an integrated circuit may comprise a processor and circuitry coupled to the processor to generate non-timing packets associated with a trace of an execution of code on the processor, generate timing packets associated with the trace of the execution of the code on the processor, wherein the timing packets include at least a full timestamp timi...