US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 3 for "Entering protected pipeline mode with clearing" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,750, issued on June 3, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Entering protected pipeline mode with clearing" was invented by Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas), Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.), Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas), Mel Alan Phipps (Sugar Land, Texas) and Todd T. Hahn (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to executing a plurality of instructions by a processor comprising receiving a first instruction for execution on an instruction execution pipeline, wherein the instruction execution pipeline is in a first execution mode, beginning execution of the first instruction on ...