US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 21 for "Sharing loop cache instances among multiple threads in processor devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,060, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sharing loop cache instances among multiple threads in processor devices" was invented by Puneet Talwar (Austin, Texas), Stephen Shannon (Austin, Texas), Suresh Kumar Venkumahanti (Austin, Texas) and Karan Suri (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sharing loop cache instances among multiple threads in processor devices is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a processor device provides a loop cache controller circuit that is configured to detect a first iteration of a loop body, comprising a plurality of loop instructions, in an instruction stream executed by ...