US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 15 for "Processing unit employing micro-operations (micro-ops) random access memory (RAM) as main program memory" (Washington, Oregon, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,765, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processing unit employing micro-operations (micro-ops) random access memory (RAM) as main program memory" was invented by Shekhar Yeshwant Borkar (Beaverton, Ore.), Nitin Yeshwant Borkar (Redmond, Wash.) and Rishi Khan (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include a processing unit (PU) employing micro-operations (micro-ops) random access memory (RAM) as main program memory. The micro-ops RAM comprises row circuits each associated with a micro-op and configured to store control signal parameters and output port...