US Patent Issued to Arm on Sept. 23 for "Prediction circuitry configured to predict speculative action based on hit-to-train ratio or based on train counter and hit counter" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,597, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Prediction circuitry configured to predict speculative action based on hit-to-train ratio or based on train counter and hit counter" was invented by Devin Lafford (Austin, Texas), Alexander Cole Shulyak (Austin, Texas), Joseph Michael Pusdesris (Austin, Texas) and Jacob Martin DeGasperis (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises processing circuitry to perform data processing in response to instructions; prediction state storage circuitry to store prediction state information; prediction state training circuitry to train the pre...