ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,171, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Cache replacement system" was invented by Amir Rosen (Haifa, Israel), Ariel Szapiro (Kfar Neter, Israel), Gil Levy (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Arye Albahari (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Sagi Lahav (Kiryat Bialik, Israel) and Shie Mannor (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes prefetcher engines to predict next memory access addresses of a memory from which to load data to a cache during execution of a software application, and load the data from the predicted next memory access addresses to the cache during execut...