US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 14 for "Speculative cache invalidation for processing-in-memory instructions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,866, issued on July 14, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Speculative cache invalidation for processing-in-memory instructions" was invented by Travis Henry Boraten (Austin, Texas), Jagadish B. Kotra (Austin, Texas) and David Andrew Werner (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Speculative cache invalidation techniques for processing-in-memory instructions are described. In one example, a system includes a cache system including a plurality of cache levels and a cache coherence controller. The cache coherence controller is configured to perform a cache directory lookup using a cache directory....