ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,077, issued on March 17, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Latency optimized eviction allocation for memories" was invented by Akshay Kumar (New Delhi), Edward Martin McCombs Jr. (Austin, Texas), Bijoy Pazhanimala (Bangalore, India), Sean James Salisbury (Dendron, Great Britain) and Andrew David Tune (Dronfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing an eviction allocation in memory can include receiving, at memory circuitry, control inputs indicating an eviction allocation operation including a read operation from a plurality of addresses and a write operation to a same plurality of ...