US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 4 for "System, method, and apparatus for enhanced pointer identification and prefetching" (Indian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,581, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, method, and apparatus for enhanced pointer identification and prefetching" was invented by Sreenivas Subramoney (Bangalore, India), Stanislav Shwartsman (Haifa, India), Anant Nori (Bangalore, India), Shankar Balachandran (Bangalore, India), Elad Shtiegmann (Kefar Sava, Israel), Vineeth Mekkat (San Jose, Calif.), Manjunath Shevgoor (San Jose, Calif.) and Sourabh Alurkar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for prefetching pointer-referenced data. A method embodiment includes: tracking a plurality of load instructions whic...