US Patent Issued to Intel on July 7 for "Cache line invalidation technologies" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,413, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cache line invalidation technologies" was invented by Bruce Richardson (Shannon, Ireland), Niall D. McDonnell (Limerick, Ireland) and Subhiksha Ravisundar (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a device issuing a single command to request invalidation of multiple cache lines associated with a memory address range in a cache device. In some examples, the cache device is associated with the processor. In some examples, the processor comprises one or more of a central processing unit (CPU), core, or graphics processing u...