ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,399, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Method and system for code optimization based on statistical data" was invented by Ulf Hanebutte (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Senad Durakovic (Palo Alto, Calif.), Harri Hakkarainen (Los Gatos, Calif.), Chien-Chun Chou (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Veena Karthikeyan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Fu-Hwa Wang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a high-level function in a first high-level code; compiling the high-level function into a first set of low-level instructions to be executed on a hardware or a simulator; transmitting the first set...