US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "User controlled allocation of a specific cache line at time of access" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,651, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"User controlled allocation of a specific cache line at time of access" was invented by Scot Rider (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for controlling allocation of a cache line when performing a memory access request are described. An example technique includes receiving a memory access request from a user interface. The memory access request includes an indication of whether a cache line associated with the memory access request is to be allocated into a lower level cache within a computing system. ...