US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 22 for "Address range based memory hints for prefetcher, cache and memory controller" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,378, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Address range based memory hints for prefetcher, cache and memory controller" was invented by Xinliang David Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tipp James Moseley (Los Altos, Calif.) and Christopher Thomas Kennelly (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology may comprise a mechanism that provides address range based memory hints, based on software memory access patterns. The mechanism includes an interface that can be in the form of a new instruction ("mem_range_hint") that includes as operands (i) the start of the virtual address ...