ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,927, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Remote cache invalidation" was invented by Brett S. Feero (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Dennis R. Bradford (Portland, Ore.), Gaurav Garg (San Jose, Calif.), Jeff Gonion (Campbell, Calif.), Bernard J. Semeria (Palo Alto, Calif.), James Vash (San Ramon, Calif.) and Richard F. Russo (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to performing remote cache invalidations. In some embodiments, primary processor circuitry is configured to, based on execution of a remote invalidate instruction (e.g., an ISA-defined instruction), send a cache inv...