US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 3 for "Prefetch management in a hierarchical cache system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,277, issued on June 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Prefetch management in a hierarchical cache system" was invented by Bipin Prasad Heremagalur Ramaprasad (Austin, Texas), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas), Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas) and Hung Ong (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a CPU core, a first memory cache with a first line size, and a second memory cache having a second line size larger than the first line size. Each line of the second memory cache includes an upper half and a lower half. A memory controller subsystem is coupled to the CPU core and to the first and...