ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,725, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Appian Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for coupled cache management" was invented by Brian Sullivan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for maintaining and utilizing a unified cache memory. The method first identifies a unified cache memory associated with an application and populates it with data for access during application execution. The unified cache memory is associated with coupled lookup elements, which include multiple keys and multiple values coupled together. The coupled lookup elements are available to the appli...