ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,178, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data prefetching operations with trustworthy energy awareness" was invented by Aidan O'Mahony (Cork, Ireland), Ahmed Khalid (Cork, Ireland), Alan Barnett (County Cork, Ireland) and Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy aware data prefetching is disclosed. Data stored in a source storage may be retrieved or prefetched to a target storage based on a prefetching time predicted or estimated by an awareness engine. The awareness engine may include models configured to predict the prefetching time so that the prefetching tim...