US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 30 for "Hybrid cache coherency" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,095, issued on June 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Hybrid cache coherency" was invented by Tony M. Brewer (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To implement a hybrid of software and hardware coherency management, a device can receive an unrestricted-access read request for memory that corresponds to a cache line from a first host and record an indication of the unrestricted-access read request with respect to the cache line. Here, the indication can include an identifier for the first host. However, if the device receives a shared-access read request for the cache line from a second host, the devic...