US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 7 for "Flushing data from caches" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,414, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Flushing data from caches" was invented by Geng Han (Beijing), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Jibing Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to flushing data from a cache. The technique includes populating a first group of page-descriptor containers with page descriptors identifying data pages to flush from a cache. The technique further includes, after populating the first group of page-descriptor containers, populating a second group of page-descriptor containers with additional page descriptors in place of populat...