US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Processor cross-core cache line contention management" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,593, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processor cross-core cache line contention management" was invented by Michael Joseph Cadigan Jr. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Gregory William Alexander (Pflugerville, Texas), Deanna Postles Dunn Berger (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Timothy Bronson (Round Rock, Texas), Chung-Lung K. Shum (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Aaron Tsai (Hyde Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are for processor cross-core cache line contention management. A computer-implemented method includes sending a cross-invalidate command to one or more caches based on recei...