ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,855, issued on July 14, was assigned to Next Silicon Ltd (Givatayim, Israel).

"Architecture and method for a hybrid virtual-physical cache" was invented by Yiftach Gilad (Givat Ada, Israel), Liron Zur (Haifa, Israel) and Gleb Panarin (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system comprising: a cache, comprising a virtual tag storage and a physical tag storage, where each cache line is identified for load operations by a virtual tag and for store operations by a physical tag; a cache access controller; a snoop access circuitry; and a miss controller; wherein, in response to receiving a load operation comprising a v...