US Patent Issued to Arm on May 6 for "Data value prediction and pre-alignment based on prefetched predicted memory access address" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,189, issued on May 6, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Data value prediction and pre-alignment based on prefetched predicted memory access address" was invented by Kim Richard Schuttenberg (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Richard F Bryant (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus with prefetching capabilities is provided in order to produce predictions of a memory address to be accessed by a load instruction in the future. An additional special cache is provided where pre-aligned data can be stored based on that prediction. When that load instruction is eventually received, the prediction can be confirmed ...