ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,834, issued on May 6, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Cache prefetching" was invented by Vladimir Vasekin (Cambridge, Great Britain), Vincent Rezard (Vence, France), Antony John Penton (Little Canfield, Great Britain) and Cedric Denis Robert Airaud (Saint Laurent du Var, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises associating circuitry to associate an indirect prefetch condition with a memory access request when hint information indicates that the data to be accessed in response to the memory access request is address indicating data which is to be used to generate a second address for a subsequ...