ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,523, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Priority-based cache eviction policy governed by latency critical central processing unit (CPU) cores" was invented by Kalangi Fredy Sundar (Hyderabad, India), Mohd Salman (Kiratpur, India), Hithesh Hassan Lepaksha (Hyderabad, India) and Sharath Kumar Nagilla (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method for a priority-based cache eviction policy includes receiving a read request from a first processing core for first data in a level three (L3) cache memory shared with a second processing core. The first processing core has a first...