US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) on Feb. 24 for "Method and system for preventing prefetching a next instruction line based on a comparison of instructions of a current instruction line with a branch instruction" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,142, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Method and system for preventing prefetching a next instruction line based on a comparison of instructions of a current instruction line with a branch instruction" was invented by Michael Giovannini (Grenoble, France) and Gerald Briat (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method for operating an integrated circuit includes sequentially requesting, by a processor of an integrated circuit, different instruction lines; determining, by a first comparator of the integrated circuit, while the processor processes a ...