US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 3 for "Cache prefetching employing hit prediction" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,418, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cache prefetching employing hit prediction" was invented by Dominic DiTomaso (Hyde Park, N.Y.), David Trilla Rodriguez (New York), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.), Craig R. Walters (Highland, N.Y.) and Ram Sai Manoj Bamdhamravuri (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor set has an associated cache memory. A prefetch unit of the processor set generates a prefetch request. The prefetch unit determines whether the prefetch request is likely to miss in the cache memory. The prefetch unit issues the prefetch request base...