ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,724, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Arithmetic processing device and arithmetic processing method" was invented by Ryohei Okazaki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arithmetic processing device executes instructions by pipeline processing. In the arithmetic processing device, a branch predictor includes a prediction holder holding a prediction value of a consecutively taken branch count, a current taken branch count, and a prediction value of a remaining taken branch count for conditional branch instructions. A branch instruction issuance scheduler outputs an instruction refetch req...