ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,219, issued on July 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Reduced power consumption prediction using prediction tables" was invented by Thibaut Elie Lanois (Peymeinade, France), Guillaume Bolbenes (Vallauris, France) and Jonatan Christoffer Lovgren (Nice, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a predictor to make a prediction based on a plurality of prediction tables. The plurality of prediction tables are looked up using table lookup information generated based on different lengths of input history information representing a path through program execution. The apparatus comprises circuitry t...