US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Branch target buffer run-ahead" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,646, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Branch target buffer run-ahead" was invented by Julio Gago Alonso (Barcelona, Spain), Santiago Galan (Molins de Rei, Spain), Antonio Juan Hormigo (Barcelona, Spain) and Ivan Pizarro (Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Branch target buffer structures are provided. A device can include a hierarchy of branch target buffers storing entries corresponding to branch instructions, the hierarchy of branch target buffers including respective branch target buffers that have progressively slower access times. The device can in...