ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,640, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ampere Computing LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for controlling cache allocations in a configurable combined private and shared cache in a processor-based system" was invented by Richard James Shannon (Portland, Ore.), Stephan Jean Jourdan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Matthew Robert Erler (Portland, Ore.) and Jared Eric Bendt (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for controlling cache allocations in a configurable combined private and shared cache in a processor-based system. The processor-based system is configured to receive...