US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Re-use of speculative control transfer instruction results from wrong path" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,751, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Re-use of speculative control transfer instruction results from wrong path" was invented by Yuan C. Chou (Los Gatos, Calif.), Deepankar Duggal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Debasish Chandra (Fremont, Calif.), Niket K Choudhary (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Richard F. Russo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques relate to re-use of speculative results from an incorrect execution path. In some embodiments, when a first control transfer instruction is mispredicted, a second control transfer instruction may have been executed on the wrong path becaus...