US Patent Issued to Apple on July 29 for "Indirect branch predictor storing encrypted branch information fields" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,217, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Indirect branch predictor storing encrypted branch information fields" was invented by Jeffry E. Gonion (Campbell, Calif.), Ian D. Kountanis (Santa Clara, Calif.), Conrado Blasco (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Steven Andrew Myers (San Jose, Calif.) and Yannick L. Sierra (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficiently protecting branch prediction information. In various embodiments, a computing system includes at least one processor with a branch predictor storing branch target addresses and security tags in a table. The security tag inclu...