ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,649, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Profile guided memory trimming" was invented by Xinliang David Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher Thomas Kennelly (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Sotirios Apostolakis (West Windsor, N.J.) and Parthasarathy Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology is generally directed to defining an instruction for removing dead data and the related memory traffic from the cache. By defining and inserting the instruction, the cache of a computer system is optimized. The memory traffic of the cache may be optimized based on a data allocation/deal...