ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,626, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Predicting upcoming control flow" was invented by Houdhaifa Bouzguarrou (Valbonne, France), Guillaume Bolbenes (Vallauris, France), Thibaut Elie Lanois (Peymeinade, France), Vincenzo Consales (Golfe Juan, France) and Chang Joo Lee (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has a fetch queue to identify a sequence of instructions to be fetched for execution and prediction circuitry to predict upcoming control flow and to control which instructions are identified in the fetch queue in dependence on the prediction. The prediction circuitry pred...