US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 1 for "Circuitry and methods for implementing capability-directed prefetching" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,713, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circuitry and methods for implementing capability-directed prefetching" was invented by Scott D. Constable (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing capability-directed array prefetching are described. In certain examples, a hardware processor comprises an execution circuit to execute an instruction that generates a memory access request for an element in memory; a capability management circuit to check a capability for the memory access request, the capability comprising an address field of the element ...