ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,347, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reducing DC power consumption using dynamic memory prefetching for processing engines" was invented by Monobrata Debnath (San Diego), Rohit Thulasiram (San Diego), Ananya Patel (San Diego), Srinivas Ramana (San Diego) and Azzedine Adam Touzni (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to dynamic memory prefetching. In accordance with one aspect, the disclosure includes a main memory configured to store data; a memory hierarchy coupled to the main memory, the memory hierarchy configured to augment the main memory; and a tru...