ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,656, issued on April 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prefetch aware LRU cache replacement policy" was invented by Biju George (Folsom, Calif.), Zamshed I. Chowdhury (Folsom, Calif.), Prathamesh Raghunath Shinde (Folsom, Calif.), Chunhui Mei (San Diego) and Fangwen Fu (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prefetch aware LRU cache replacement policy is described. An example of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a graphic processor, the graphics processor including a load store cache having multiple cache lines (CLs), each including bits for a cache line level (CL level) and one or mor...