ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,185, issued on May 6, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Branch prediction using hypervectors" was invented by Ilias Vougioukas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andreas Lars Sandberg (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nikos Nikoleris (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for branch prediction are provided. Branch prediction circuitry generates prediction with respect to branch instructions of whether those branches will be taken or not-taken. Hypervector generation circuitry assigns an arbitrary hypervector in deterministic dependence on an address of each branch instruction, where...