US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on Sept. 1 for "Automatic hardware speculation suppression" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,613, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic hardware speculation suppression" was invented by Daniel Simon McFarlin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and John Kalamatianos (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the device may include detecting a speculative load hardening indicator in a first block of code. In addition, the device may include selectively suppressing hardware speculative execution for instructions in the first block of code associated with the detected speculative load hardening indicator."

The patent was filed on March 28, 2024, under ...