US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 18 for "Methods and circuitry for efficient management of local branch history registers" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,568, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Methods and circuitry for efficient management of local branch history registers" was invented by Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh (Morrisville, N.C.), Ahmed Helmi Mahmoud Osman Abulila (Raleigh, N.C.), Daren Eugene Streett (Cary, N.C.) and Michael Scott McIlvaine (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and circuitry for efficient management of local branch history registers are described. An example processor includes a pipeline comprising a plurality of stages and a bit-vector associated with each of in-flight branches associated with...