ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,614, issued on June 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for efficient pre-fetch data buffer management by a memory controller" was invented by Manikandan Subramanian (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include techniques for managing pre-fetch data in a computing system. A memory controller receives pre-fetch operations from a pre-fetch generator associated with a processing unit. The pre-fetch operations identify data that is likely to be accessed by the processing unit in the near future. In response, the memory controller retrieves read data associated with the read op...