ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,692, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Storage of prediction-related data" was invented by Houdhaifa Bouzguarrou (Austin, Texas), Alexander Cole Shulyak (Austin, Texas) and Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes pointer storage configured to store pointer values for pointers. Increment circuitry, responsive to one or more increment events, increments each of the pointer values in dependence on a corresponding live pointer value update condition from corresponding live pointer value update conditions. The corresponding live ...