ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,097, issued on June 30, was assigned to ARTERIS INC. (Campbell, Calif.).
"System and method for managing event messages in a cache coherent interconnect" was invented by Michael Frank (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mohammed Khaleeluddin (Union City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache coherent interconnect connected to one or more agents, such as CPUs, GPUS, Peripherals, etc. using network interface units (NIUs), and having one or more internal modules, such as a directory, is provided with one or more event-to-message converters, and one or more message-to-event converters. When a particular event occurs within one of the agents ...