US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Accelerating fetch target queue (FTQ) processing in a processor" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,220, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Accelerating fetch target queue (FTQ) processing in a processor" was invented by Saransh Jain (Raleigh, N.C.), Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh (Morrisville, N.C.), Daren Eugene Streett (Cary, N.C.), Michael Scott McIlvaine (Raleigh, N.C.) and Somasundaram Arunachalam (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accelerating fetch target queue (FTQ) processing is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a processor comprises an FTQ and an FTQ acceleration cache (FAC), and is configured to generate a FAC entry corresponding to an FTQ entry of a plurality...