US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 9 for "Hardware control system to modulate prefetchers based on runtime telemetry" (California, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,556, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hardware control system to modulate prefetchers based on runtime telemetry" was invented by Akanksha Jain (Mountain View, Calif.), Parthasarathy Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.), Milad Olia Hashemi (San Francisco), Christopher Thomas Kennelly (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and Carlos Villavieja Prados (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach for dynamically modulating a hardware prefetcher using system software. The hardware prefetcher may be disabled when the amount of the memory bandwidth utilization level is above an...