US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Dec. 2 for "Prediction unit with first predictor that provides a hashed fetch address of a current fetch block to its own input and to a second predictor that uses it to predict the fetch address of a next fetch block" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,830, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Prediction unit with first predictor that provides a hashed fetch address of a current fetch block to its own input and to a second predictor that uses it to predict the fetch address of a next fetch block" was invented by John G. Favor (San Francisco) and Michael N. Michael (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction unit includes a first predictor that provides an output comprising a hashed fetch address of a current fetch block in response to an input. The first predictor input comprises a hashed fetch address of a previous fetch...