US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for load-dependent-branch pre-resolution" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,199, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for load-dependent-branch pre-resolution" was invented by Maziar Goudarzi (Toronto), Julian Humecki (Etobicoke, Canada) and Reza Azimi (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of branch prediction includes, in a pre-execute loop, loading a series of instructions leading to a load dependent branch (LDB) instruction including a load instruction, executing the load instruction to receive a part of a branch condition, computing a branch outcome of the LDB instruction based on the branch condition, and storing the b...