ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,082, issued on June 23, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Flushing cache lines involving persistent memory" was invented by Sharath Raghava (Los Gatos, Calif.), Nagabhushan Chitlur (Portland, Ore.) and Harsha Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, via a communication link and at a device of an integrated circuit system, a cache line comprising a destination address, determining, via the device, a type of memory or storage associated with the destination address, the type of memory or storage comprising persistent or non-persistent, and tagging the cache line with metadata ...