G06F 9/3844
Using dynamic branch prediction
Official title: {using dynamic branch prediction, e.g. using branch history tables}
G06F9/3844 (Using dynamic branch prediction) appears on 960 US grants and 885 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Branch target buffer victim cache9 Jun 2026US 12,650,845 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
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- Branch target buffer victim cache3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259735 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Fetch queue population20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244447 A1Arm Limited
- Shadow cache for securing conditional speculative instruction execution13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236266 A1Lodestar Licensing Group LLC
- Control flow prediction6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228005 A1Arm Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for store-into-instruction-stream detection and maintaining branch prediction cache consistency285US 5,226,130 ANexgen Microsystems · 1993
- Branch prediction210US 5,142,634 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1992
- Processor architecture having independently fetching issuing and updating operations of instructions which are sequentially assigned and stored in order fetched206US 5,487,156 A1996
- Processor and method for speculatively executing instructions from multiple instruction streams indicated by a branch instruction135US 5,860,017 AIntel Corporation · 1999
- Branch history guided instruction/data prefetching135US 6,560,693 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2003