US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 15 for "Device, method, and system to determine a count of retired prefetch instructions" (Israeli, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,275, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device, method, and system to determine a count of retired prefetch instructions" was invented by Ahmad Yasin (Haifa, Israel), Anton Hanna (Nof Hagalil, Israel), Yuval Alon (Haifa, Israel) and Amandeep Kaur (Ropar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for circuitry of a processor to determine a count of prefetch instructions which have been retired, or are designated for retirement. In an embodiment, a performance monitoring unit (PMU) monitors the execution of an instruction sequence by a core of said processor. The PMU detects th...