G06F 9/30061
Multi-way branch instructions
Official title: {Multi-way branch instructions, e.g. CASE}
G06F9/30061 (Multi-way branch instructions) appears on 171 US grants and 150 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 171
- Published applications
- 150
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 294
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2003 | 3 | 11 |
| 2004 | 3 | 9 |
| 2005 | 7 | 1 |
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| 2010 | 11 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 6 |
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| 2019 | 14 | 23 |
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| 2023 | 4 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 4 | 7 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Selecting an executable operation from a lookup table identified by a conditional instruction and indexed based on combined results of concurrently-computed relational operators8 Sep 2026US 12,730,644 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Biased indirect control transfer prediction17 Mar 2026US 12,578,965 B2Apple Inc.
- Processor having switch instruction circuit2 Dec 2025US 12,487,828 B2Microchip Technology Incorporated
- Conditional branch instructions29 Jul 2025US 12,373,216 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Multipathing code execution based on failure severity background22 Jul 2025US 12,367,042 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Common indirect addressing for early jump execution pipeline clear25 Jun 2026US 2026/0178335 A1Intel Corporation
- Biased Indirect Control Transfer Prediction25 Jun 2026US 2026/0178336 A1Apple Inc.
- Processor that implements indirect addressing-style conditional jump instructions, program recording medium, and method8 Jan 2026US 2026/0010371 A1Takeoka Lab Corporation
- Differential treatment of context-sensitive indirect branches in indirect target predictors20 Nov 2025US 2025/0355669 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Conditional branch instructions13 Nov 2025US 2025/0348317 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for program level parallelism in a VLIW processor233US 6,170,051 AMicron Technology, Inc. · 2001
- Hierarchical priority branch handling for parallel execution in a parallel processor218US 4,833,599 AMultiflow Computer, Inc. · 1989
- Computer system having mixed macrocode and microcode137US 5,235,686 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1993
- Dynamic branch prediction for branch instructions with multiple targets130US 5,903,750 AInstitute for the Development of Emerging Architectures, L.L.C. · 1999
- High-performance, superscalar-based computer system with out-of-order instruction execution94US 5,539,911 ASeiko Epson Corporation · 1996