US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Dec. 2 for "Store-to-load forwarding correctness checks using physical address proxies stored in load queue entries" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,936, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Store-to-load forwarding correctness checks using physical address proxies stored in load queue entries" was invented by John G Favor (San Francisco) and Srivatsan Srinivasan (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microprocessor includes a load/store unit that performs store-to-load forwarding, a PIPT L2 set-associative cache, a store queue having store entries, and a load queue having load entries. Each L2 entry is uniquely identified by a set index and a way. Each store/load entry holds, for an associated store/load instruction, a st...