ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,535, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cooperative instruction prefetch on multicore system" was invented by Rahul Nagarajan (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Leary (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thejasvi Magudilu Vijayaraj (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Thomas James Norrie (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses using an instruction prefetch pipeline architecture that provides good performance without the complexity of a full cache coherent solution deployed in conventional CPUs. The architecture can include components which can...