ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,505, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Managing speculative instruction execution using speculative id in a graphflow apparatus" was invented by Fan Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Ruoyu Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Wenbo Sun (Hangzhou, China) and Xiping Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphflow apparatus includes an information buffer (IB) and a load queue (LQ). The IB is configured to cache an instruction queue. The LQ is used to cache a read instruction queue. The IB includes a speculative bit and a speculative identity (ID) field. The speculative bit indicates whether a ...