US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 29 for "Instruction execution scheduling using a hit/miss predictor" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,075, issued on April 29, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Instruction execution scheduling using a hit/miss predictor" was invented by Dominic DiTomaso (Hyde Park, N.Y.), David Trilla Rodriguez (New York), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.), Craig R Walters (Highland, N.Y.) and Ram Sai Manoj Bamdhamravuri (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache hit-miss prediction is determined for a memory access instruction using a predictor. The predictor includes a tracker for the memory access instruction. The tracker is used to provide a prediction confidence level of the cache hit-miss predict...