ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,651, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Discard control metadata" was invented by Matthew James Horsnell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Salil Ramchandra Akerkar (Austin, Texas), Klas Magnus Bruce (Leander, Texas), Thomas Philip Speier (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Richard Roy Grisenthwaite (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interconnect circuitry comprises: receiving interface circuitry configured to receive, from a metadata-transmitting caching agent, discard control metadata for a given cache line previously held in a private cache of the data-transmitting caching agent; and transmit...