ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,096, issued on June 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application programming interface to invalidate information" was invented by Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.), Daniel Joseph Lustig (Woburn, Mass.), Gonzalo Brito Gadeschi (Munich), Subhasmita Chakraborty (Los Altos, Calif.) and Gokul Ramaswamy Hirisave Chandra Shekhara (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to cause information to be invalidated in a second cache location after information is stored in a first cache location. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application...