US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 23 for "Hardware guided software prefetch insertion" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,101, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hardware guided software prefetch insertion" was invented by Christopher Thomas Kennelly (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Akanksha Jain (Mountain View, Calif.), Milad Olia Hashemi (San Francisco) and Hannah Lin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach for identifying target code locations for software prefetching instructions based on hardware prefetching information. The target code locations can be identified based on the locations where the hardware prefetchers were designed to prefetch loads. Hardware cache ev...