ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,379, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Interleaving cache line data transfers and handling misses of speculatively fetched data" was invented by Ashraf Elsharif (Austin, Texas), Jason D Kohl (Austin, Texas), Chunggeon Rhee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Keerthana Jetty (Austin, Texas), Christine Nienhuis (Austin, Texas) and Hieu Trong Huynh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for interleaving cache line data transfers and handling misses of speculatively fetched data are disclosed, including receiving, by a first cache, one or more data reque...