ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,909, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Memory prefetch based on machine learning" was invented by Chao Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Qingbo Wang (Irvine, Calif.), Minghai Qin (Fremont, Calif.), Jaco Hofmann (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anand Kulkarni (San Jose, Calif.), Dejan Vucinic (San Jose, Calif.) and Zvonimir Bandic (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a first memory and a second memory that caches data stored in the first memory. At least one controller of the memory device receives page fault information from a host. The page fault information results fro...