US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on May 27 for "Branch prediction method, branch prediction apparatus, processor, medium, and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,721, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Branch prediction method, branch prediction apparatus, processor, medium, and device" was invented by Dongsheng Li (Shenzhen, China) and Zimu Ren (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A branch prediction method includes obtaining an instruction block containing an instruction, performing detection on the instruction block according to branch instruction information stored in a branch target buffer of a branch predictor of a processor, and in response to detecting that the instruction is a branch instruction, detecting a type of the branch...