ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,833, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Prefetching using global offset direction tracking circuitry" was invented by Ugo Castorina (Antibes, France), Diogo Augusto Pereira Marques (Antibes, France), Damien Matthieu Valentin Cathrine (Mougins, France) and Christophe Marie Pitelet (Biot, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises prefetcher circuitry to perform prefetching. In the prefetching: prefetcher training is performed to maintain offset scores for a plurality of candidate offsets, each offset score being associated with a corresponding candidate offset and depending on de...