ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,063, issued on April 15, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Bypassing program counter match conditions" was invented by Ugo Castorina (Antibes, France), Damien Matthieu Valentin Cathrine (Mougins, France), Marco Coletta (Antibes, France) and Diogo Augusto Pereira Marques (Antibes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for improving the tracking of streams of memory accesses for training a stride prefetcher is provided, comprising a training data structure storing entries for training a stride prefetcher, a given entry specifying: a stride offset, a target address, a program counter address, and a bypass...