US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Delayed cache entry invalidation update for potential overwrite re-use" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,810, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Delayed cache entry invalidation update for potential overwrite re-use" was invented by David K. Li (Austin, Texas), Yoong Chert Foo (London), Benjiman L. Goodman (Austin, Texas) and Chance C. Coats (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to cache control in cache hierarchies. In some embodiments, processor execution circuitry is configured to perform operations on input operand data from a first-level cache, including a first operation that reads first data from an entry in the first-level cache and signals an invalidation ...