ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,797, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Branch prediction circuitry" was invented by Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Branch prediction circuitry comprising branch target prediction circuitry to, for an identified block of sequential instructions, generate a branch target prediction identifying a predicted branch target for a selected branch instruction in the block of sequential instructions; output circuitry to output the branch target prediction; and determination circuitry to determine whether at least one condition is met. The branch target prediction...