US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Determining an optimal path to search a branch target buffer" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,650, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining an optimal path to search a branch target buffer" was invented by Martijn D. Berkers (Boeblingen, Germany), Maarten J. Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany), Edward Thomas Malley (Eastchester, N.Y.), Brian Robert Prasky (Campbell Hall, N.Y.), James Bonanno (Liberty Hill, Texas), Jang-Soo Lee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Dominic Ditomaso (Hyde Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for determining an optimal path for searching a branch target buffer (BTB). Initial BTB search index results are generated by sear...