US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 27 for "System, method and apparatus for high level microarchitecture event performance monitoring using fixed counters" (Texas, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,086, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, method and apparatus for high level microarchitecture event performance monitoring using fixed counters" was invented by Claudia Romo (Manchaca, Texas), Jonathan Combs (Austin, Texas) and Beeman Strong (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: at least one core to execute instructions; and a plurality of fixed counters coupled to the at least one core, the plurality of fixed counters to count events during execution on the at least one core, at least some of the plurality of fixed counters to count event ...