US Patent Issued to Arm on Jan. 20 for "Prefetch attribute value prediction" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,301, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Prefetch attribute value prediction" was invented by Ugo Castorina (Biot, France), Damien Matthieu Valentin Cathrine (Mougins, France), Marco Coletta (Antibes, France) and Diogo Augusto Pereira Marques (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes prefetch control circuitry and prefetch request attribute prediction circuitry. The prefetch control circuitry controls issuing of a prefetch request to prefetch data from a memory system, the prefetch request specifying a prefetch target address and an attribute. The prefetch request attri...