ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,411, issued on Feb. 10.
"Securing conditional speculative instruction execution" was invented by Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed in a processor, includes: receiving, in the processor, a branch instruction in the processing; determining, by the processor, an address of an instruction after the branch instruction as a candidate for speculative execution, the address including an object identification and an offset; and determining, by the processor, whether or not to perform speculative execution of the instruction after the branch instruction based on the object identification of the ad...