US Patent Issued to Google on July 29 for "Selective re-execution of instruction streams for reliability" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,274, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selective re-execution of instruction streams for reliability" was invented by Jonathan Charles Masters (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology is generally directed to detecting silent data corruption by selectively re-executing instructions. A renamer may receive decoded instructions from an instruction cache. The renamer may identify one or more of the decoded instructions that can be performed out of order. The reorder buffer may be configured to track instructions that are to be re-executed for purposes of computing their value a second ti...