ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,694, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Processor having adaptive pipeline with latency reduction logic that selectively executes instructions to reduce latency" was invented by Christian Wiencke (Garching, Germany), Shrey Sudhir Bhatia (Freising, Germany) and Jeroen Vliegen (Fahrenzhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for reducing pipeline latency. In one embodiment, a processing system includes a processing pipeline. The processing pipeline includes a plurality of processing stages. Each stage is configured to further processing provided by a previous stage. A first o...