ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,523, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Page access frequency tracking" was invented by Matthew Lucien Evans (Cambridge, Great Britain), Robert Gwilym Dimond (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Alexander Donald Charles Chadwick (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises: memory access circuitry (11) to process memory access requests requesting access to a memory system (10, 32); and access frequency tracking circuitry (40). In response to a given memory access request requesting access to a given page of a memory address space, the access frequency tracking circuit...