US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 10 for "Branch prediction using speculative indexing and intraline count" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,122, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Branch prediction using speculative indexing and intraline count" was invented by Brian Robert Prasky (Campbell Hall, N.Y.), James Bonanno (Liberty Hill, Texas), Adam Benjamin Collura (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Edward Thomas Malley (Eastchester, N.Y.) and Deepankar Bhattacharjee (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of branch prediction in a processor includes: obtaining, by the processor, a branch instruction for which a direction of a branch is to be predicted; generating, by the processor, an index based on an instruc...