US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Biased indirect control transfer prediction" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,965, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Biased indirect control transfer prediction" was invented by Muawya M Al-Otoom (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Pruthivi Vuyyuru (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew H Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ian D Kountanis (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may include an indirect control transfer prediction circuit. During fetch of an indirect control transfer instruction from memory to an instruction cache of the processor, the indirect control transfer prediction circuit may predict whether the indirect control transfer instruction is biased. Responsive to a ...