ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,273, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Prefetching using dynamic user model to reduce latency" was invented by Fernando Diaz (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ryen William White (Woodinville, Wash.) and Qi Guo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory that stores a prefetching model. A control module receives a content page including one or more links each associated with selectable content and collects data associated with the content page. The collected data includes at least one of first data indicative of respective relationships between each of the links and...