US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS on Feb. 3 for "Classification of different types of cache misses" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,443, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston).

"Classification of different types of cache misses" was invented by Tongping Liu (Boston), Jin Zhou (Boston), Jiaxun Tang (Boston) and Hanmei Yang (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to cache miss classification. In one example, a method for classification of cache misses includes detecting a susceptible instruction of a program with frequent cache misses based upon performance monitoring units (PMU) based coarse grain sampling; collecting a memory access pattern of the susceptible instruction using breakpoint-based fi...