ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,384, issued on March 4, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Compression aware prefetch" was invented by Pazhani Pillai (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Harish Kumar Kovalam Rajendran (Boxborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for prefetching data. First data is loaded from a first memory location. The first data in cached in a cache memory. Other data is prefetched to the cache memory based on a compression of the first data and a compression of the other data. In some implementations, the compression of the first data and the compression of the other data are determined base...