G06F 9/268
Microinstruction selection not based on processing results
Official title: {Microinstruction selection not based on processing results, e.g. interrupt, patch, first cycle store, diagnostic programs}
G06F9/268 (Microinstruction selection not based on processing results) appears on 204 US grants and 84 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 204
- Published applications
- 84
- Assignees
- 76
- Inventors
- 357
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Live firmware update switchover8 Sep 2026US 12,730,629 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Implicit program order7 May 2024US 11,977,891 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding26 Mar 2024US RE49,887 E1Nokia Technologies Oy
- Accelerator controller for inserting template microcode instructions into a microcode buffer to accelerate matrix operations5 Dec 2023US 11,836,488 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Live firmware update switchover7 Nov 2023US 11,809,857 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Read only memory (rom) patching21 May 2026US 2026/0140735 A1NXP B. V.
- Chaos Testing Prioritization Via Smart Weights Inference19 Mar 2026US 2026/0079703 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Live firmware update switchover28 Dec 2023US 2023/0418592 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Live firmware update switchover14 Sep 2023US 2023/0289175 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Apparatus and method for secure, efficient microcode patching17 Aug 2023US 2023/0259364 A9Intel Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Single chip microprocessor circuits, systems, and methods for self-loading patch micro-operation codes and patch microinstruction codes147US 5,950,012 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1999
- Computer system having mixed macrocode and microcode137US 5,235,686 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1993
- Program counter stacking method and apparatus for nested subroutines and interrupts114US 4,488,227 AHoneywell Information Systems Inc. · 1984
- Microprocessor with circuits, systems, and methods for operating with patch micro-operation codes and patch microinstruction codes stored in multi-purpose memory structure90US 6,049,672 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 2000
- Apparatus and method for microcode patching for generating a next address85US 6,141,740 AAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc. · 2000