Looks like the &quot;idea&quot; of the patent in the description is to use a predictor to predict when a STORE and LOAD alias and not speculate the LOAD and any instruction depending on the load (although the claims generalize this to any non-static dependency).<p>As it generally happens in software&#x2F;hardware patents, the claimed solution seems quite obvious whenever one wants to solve that particular problem, and the hard part is the &quot;execution&quot;, i.e. implementing it efficiently and figuring out whether the tradeoffs are worth it.<p>So assigning patents to things like this seems really dumb.