US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "Technique for prefetching with a pointer prefetcher" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,591, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Technique for prefetching with a pointer prefetcher" was invented by Sabine Francis (Austin, Texas), Jungsoo Kim (Sawston, Great Britain) and Conrado Blasco (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for prefetching with a pointer prefetcher. Aspects include obtaining a triggering access comprising a virtual address denoting a beginning of a payload of a cache line. Aspects include determining a stride associated with the producer workload based, at least in part, on a virtual address...