US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 3 for "Processing for processors performing tasks having forward conditional branch instructions" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,367, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Processing for processors performing tasks having forward conditional branch instructions" was invented by Dushyanth Bhojaraja (Fremont, Calif.), Prerana Satish Maslekar (San Jose, Calif.), Dennis Clayton Lou (Los Altos, Calif.) and Khary Jason Alexander (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein control circuitry of a computing device to invalidate certain data elements associated with a forward conditional branch instruction (FCBI) to prevent computational inefficiencies, such pipeline flush. The d...