ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,073, issued on April 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Instruction prefetch throttling" was invented by Chang Joo Lee (Austin, Texas), Jason Lee Setter (Austin, Texas), Julia Kay Lanier (Austin, Texas), Michael Brian Schinzler (Round Rock, Texas) and Yasuo Ishii (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for limiting the effective utilisation of an instruction fetch queue. The instruction fetch entries are used to control the prefetching of instructions from memory, such that those instructions are stored in an instruction cache prior to being required by execution circuitry while ex...