ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,771, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Combiner cache structure" was invented by Houdhaifa Bouzguarrou (Austin, Texas), Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh (Morrisville, N.C.) and Guillaume Bolbenes (Vallauris, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prediction circuitry generates a prediction associated with a prediction input address, for controlling a speculative action. Combiner circuitry determines a combined prediction by applying a prediction combination function to a given address and sets of prediction information generated by a plurality of predictors corresponding to the given address. A cache str...