US Patent Issued to Arm on Feb. 25 for "Methods and apparatus for processing prefetch pattern storage data" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,768, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for processing prefetch pattern storage data" was invented by Scott Courtland Hadley (Austin, Texas), Devin S. Lafford (Austin, Texas) and Alexander Cole Shulyak (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus comprising prefetch pattern storage circuitry and pattern training circuitry. The pattern training circuitry detects patterns of data access for updating one or more corresponding pattern storage entries. The pattern training circuitry comprises a plurality of training entrie...