US Patent Issued to Arm on Aug. 25 for "Operational modes for prefetch generation circuitry" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,721, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Operational modes for prefetch generation circuitry" was invented by Ugo Castorina (Antibes, France), Damien Matthieu Valentin Cathrine (Mougins, France), Diogo Augusto Pereira Marques (Antibes, France) and Marco Coletta (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, a system, a chip containing product, a method and a medium. The apparatus comprises prefetch generation circuitry configured to generate prefetch requests. The apparatus is also provided with control circuitry configured to determine an operational mode for the ...