US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 24 for "Apparatus and method for branch prediction using machine learning with new learning models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,223, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Apparatus and method for branch prediction using machine learning with new learning models" was invented by Da Qi Ren (Saratoga, Calif.), Qian Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and XingYu Jiang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Branch prediction techniques for pipelined microprocessors are disclosed. A microprocessor for branch predictor selection includes a fetch stage configured to retrieve instructions from a memory. A buffer is configured to store instructions retrieved by the fetch stage, and one or more pipelined stages configured...