ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,173, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selectable cache writing policies for cache management" was invented by Emanuele Confalonieri (Segrate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to selectable cache writing policies for cache management are described. A cache writing policy to manage a cache can be selected among cache writing policies based on a number of tracked criteria, which can provide cache management with a particular cache writing policy that will likely incur less latency than the other policies."

The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2022, unde...