US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for facilitating dual ownership of cache regions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,061, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating dual ownership of cache regions" was invented by Amit P. Apte (Austin, Texas) and Ganesh Balakrishnan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method can include detecting, by at least one processor, a cache load from a second central processing unit (CPU) cache hierarchy onto an exclusively owned cache region of cache memory that is exclusively owned by a first CPU cache hierarchy. The method can additionally include converting, by the at least one processor, the exc...