ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,591, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Prediction confirmation for cache subsystem" was invented by Ronald P. Hall (Cedar Park, Texas), Mary D. Brown (Austin, Texas), Balaji Kadambi (Austin, Texas) and Mahesh K. Reddy (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache subsystem is disclosed. The cache subsystem includes a cache configured to store information in cache lines arranged in a plurality of ways. A requestor circuit generates a request to access a particular cache line in the cache. A prediction circuit is configured to generate a prediction of which of the ways includes the particular c...