US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 8 for "Memory expansion with persistent predictive prefetching" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,558, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory expansion with persistent predictive prefetching" was invented by Chace A. Clark (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Christina Strong (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device with non-volatile memory and persistent predictive prefetching provides highspeed storage to a computer system. The memory device uses a non-volatile memory to store data and a volatile memory to cache the data from the non-volatile memory. The computer system sends access requests to obtain data in the non-volatile memory. A prediction engine in the memory device receive...