ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,533, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Adaptive address tracking" was invented by David Andrew Roberts (Wellesley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described apparatuses and methods track access metadata pertaining to activity within respective address ranges. The access metadata can be used to inform prefetch operations within the respective address ranges. The prefetch operations may involve deriving access patterns from access metadata covering the respective ranges. Suitable address range sizes for accurate pattern detection, however, can vary significantly from region to region of the...