ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,964, issued on March 17, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Prediction data corruption" was invented by Houdhaifa Bouzguarrou (Austin, Texas) and Michael Brian Schinzler (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus is provided. It includes history storage circuitry that stores historic data of instructions and prediction circuitry that predicts a historic datum of a specific instruction based on subsets of the historic data of the instructions. The history storage circuitry overwrites the historic data of one of the instructions to form a corrupted historic datum and at least one o...