ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,533, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Instruction execution control apparatus and method using correspondence information between different processor instruction sets" was invented by Hitoshi Hamao (Tokyo) and Koichi Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instruction execution control apparatus is configured to acquire correspondence information. The correspondence information associates a non-common instruction with a common instruction. The non-common instruction is an instruction not executable by a first processor but executable by a second processor. The common instruction is an instr...