ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,695, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Copy a subset of status flags from a control and status register to a flags register" was invented by Vedvyas Shanbhogue (Austin, Texas), Robert Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Mark Charney (Lexington, Mass.) and Venkateswara Madduri (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for copying a subset of status flags from a control and status register to a flags register in response to an instruction are described. An exemplary instruction includes a field for an opcode, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to copy from a first register a sa...