US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 30 for "Device, method, and system to facilitate improved bandwidth of a branch prediction unit" (Israeli, Indian, American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,135, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device, method, and system to facilitate improved bandwidth of a branch prediction unit" was invented by Sumeet Bandishte (Indore, India), Jayesh Gaur (Bangalore, India), Franck Sala (Haifa, Israel), Alexey Yurievich Sivtsov (Moscow), Jared Warner Stark IV (Portland, Ore.), Lihu Rappoport (Haifa, Israel) and Sreenivas Subramoney (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for a processor to determine an execution of instructions based on a prediction of a taken branch. In an embodiment, a first prediction unit generates each o...