US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 11 for "Providing location-based prefetching in processor-based devices" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,177, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Providing location-based prefetching in processor-based devices" was invented by Ahmed Abulila (Raleigh, N.C.), Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh (Morrisville, N.C.), Saransh Jain (Raleigh, N.C.), Daren Eugene Streett (Cary, N.C.) and Michael Scott Mcilvaine (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing location-based prefetching in processor-based devices is disclosed. In this regard, a processor-based device comprises a location-based prefetcher circuit associated with a first cache memory device having a faster access time and a smaller c...