ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,417, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimizing artificial intelligence applications" was invented by Bennett Amodio (Millbrae, Calif.), Emily Potyraj (Houston) and Brian Gold (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nonsequential readahead based on data access patterns, the method comprising: determining a set of access patterns for stored content; determining, based on the set of access patterns, a list of storage locations for content expected to be used; and prefetching, based on the list of storage locations for content expected to be used, one or more data objects."

The paten...