US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 24 for "Circuitry and methods for a conditional fence instruction" (Austrian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,144, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circuitry and methods for a conditional fence instruction" was invented by Fangfei Liu (Hillsboro, Ore.), Scott Constable (Portland, Ore.), Thomas Unterluggauer (Villach, Austria), Joseph Nuzman (Haifa, Israel) and Carlos Rozas (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry and methods for implementing conditional fence instructions are described. In certain examples, a hardware processor (e.g., core) includes a branch predictor to predict one of a taken path and a not taken path for a conditional branch instruction; decoder circuitry to decode an i...