US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Trace cache techniques based on biased control transfer instructions" (California, Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,193, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Trace cache techniques based on biased control transfer instructions" was invented by Niket K. Choudhary (Santa Clara, Calif.), Muawya M. Al-Otoom (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Pruthivi Vuyyuru (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew H. Lin (Cupertino, Calif.), Ilhyun Kim (Portland, Ore.), Douglas C. Holman (San Francisco), Samir Dutt (San Jose, Calif.) and Ronald P. Hall (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques relate to trace cache circuitry configured to identify and cache traces that satisfy certain criteria. Prediction circuitry may track directi...