ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,067, issued on April 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Prediction of number of iterations of a fetching process" was invented by Houdhaifa Bouzguarrou (Valbonne, France), Thibaut Elie Lanois (Peymeinade, France) and Guillaume Bolbenes (Vallauris, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prediction circuitry predicts a number of iterations of a fetching process to be performed to control fetching of data/instructions for processing operations that are predicted to be performed by processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can tolerate performing unnecessary iterations of the fetching process following an over-p...