US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Throttling code fetch for speculative code paths" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,768, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Throttling code fetch for speculative code paths" was invented by Anant Vithal Nori (Bangalore, India), Prathmesh Kallurkar (Bangalore, India), Sreenivas Subramoney (Bangalore, India) and Niranjan Kumar Soundararajan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus relating to throttling a code fetch for speculative code paths are described. In an embodiment, a first storage structure stores a reference to a code line in response to a request to be received from a cache. A second storage structure to store a reference to the code line in...