ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,915, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Hierarchical store queue circuit" was invented by Nikhil Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gideon N. Levinsky (Cedar Park, Texas), Kulin N. Kothari (Cupertino, Calif.), Mridul Agarwal (Saratoga, Calif.) and Pankaj Lnu (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a cache memory circuit, and a hierarchal store queue circuit that further includes a primary queue and a secondary queue. The hierarchal store queue circuit may be configured to write incoming store requests to the primary queue in response to the primary queue currently having cap...