ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,648, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Evicting a cache line with pending control request" was invented by Tony M. Brewer (Plano, Texas) and Dean E. Walker (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for evicting a cache line with pending control request are described herein. A memory request-that includes an address corresponding to a set of cache lines-can be received. A determination can be made that a cache line of the set of cache lines will be evicted to process the memory request. Another determination can be made that a control request has been made to a host fro...