US Patent Issued to Arm on Nov. 3 for "Cache arrangements in data processing systems" (British, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,419, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Cache arrangements in data processing systems" was invented by Peter William Harris (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Edvard Fielding (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a data processing system comprising a data processor and a cache that is operable to transfer data from memory to the data processor. The data processor is operable to use data of a type that when transferred to the cache can comprise multiple component values. The data processor is however operable to store within a cache line of the cache a subset of less than all of...