ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,095, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Register interface for computer processor" was invented by Stanley Chen (Portland, Ore.), Vivek Garg (Folsom, Calif.), Ankush Varma (Portland, Ore.), Eric J. Dehaemer (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Johan van de Groenendaal (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a processor may include at least one processing engine to execute instructions, and a register interface circuit coupled to the at least one processing engine. The register interface circuit may be to: receive a request to access a register associated with a feature of the processor; d...