US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 16 for "Circuitry and methods for informing indirect prefetches using capabilities" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,099, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circuitry and methods for informing indirect prefetches using capabilities" was invented by Scott D. Constable (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing capability-based indirect prefetching are described. In certain examples, a hardware processor comprises an execution circuit to execute an instruction that generates a memory access request for an element in memory via a first capability; a capability management circuit to check the first capability for the memory access request, the first capability ...