US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "Device for performing branch target buffer entry prefetching" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,044, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Device for performing branch target buffer entry prefetching" was invented by Julio Gago Alonso (Barcelona, Spain), Santiago Galan (Molins de Rei, Spain) and Ivan Pizarro (Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A branch prediction device includes a hierarchy of successively slower to access branch target buffers that store branch target buffer entries identifying branch instructions, branch prediction circuitry configured to predict future branch instructions, and a branch target buffer prefetch table coupled to receiv...