ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,319, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scalable toggle point control circuitry for a clustered decode pipeline" was invented by Sundararajan Ramakrishnan (Cedar Park, Texas), Jonathan Combs (Austin, Texas), Martin J. Licht (Round Rock, Texas) and Santhosh Srinath (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to implement toggle point insertion for a clustered decode pipeline are described. In one example, a hardware processor core includes a first decode cluster comprising a plurality of decoder circuits, a second decode cluster compri...