ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,429, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for adaptive hybrid hardware pre-fetch" was invented by Elnaz Ebrahimi (San Jose, Calif.), Ehsan Khish Ardestani Zadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Wei-Yu Chen (Fremont, Calif.) and Liang Peng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a processor core and a memory hierarchy. The memory hierarchy includes main memory and one or more caches between the main memory and the processor core. A plurality of hardware pre-fetchers are coupled to the memory hierarchy and a pre-fetch control circuit is coupled to the ...