US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 2 for "Controlling speculative actions based on a hit/miss predictor" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,825, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Controlling speculative actions based on a hit/miss predictor" was invented by David Trilla Rodriguez (New York), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.), Dominic DiTomaso (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Craig R Walters (Highland, N.Y.) and Ram Sai Manoj Bamdhamravuri (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing within a computing environment is facilitated by using cache hit-miss predictions. A cache hit-miss prediction is determined for a memory access instruction using a predictor. One or more speculative actions are controlled, based on determi...