US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 2 for "Near-cache compute" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,591, issued on June 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Near-cache compute" was invented by David Andrew Roberts (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Near-cache compute can be implemented by a device that includes an interface configured to communicate with external entities and processing circuitry configured to receive a recall count request, from an entity on the interface. Here, the recall count request can specify a data object that is represented by a set of cache lines on the device. The device can tabulate a number of cache lines in the set of cache lines that are inconsistent to create a rec...