US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 27 for "Separate branch target buffers for different levels of calls" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,467, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Separate branch target buffers for different levels of calls" was invented by Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device (e.g., a processor) having a plurality of branch target buffers. A first branch target buffer in the plurality of branch target buffers is used in execution of a set of instructions containing a call to a subroutine. In response to the call to the subroutine, a second branch target buffer is allocated from the plurality of branch target buffers for execution of instructions in the subroutine. The se...