ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,943, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RELATIVITY ODA LLC (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for birth time-based FIFO cache reaping" was invented by Mohammad Amer Ghazal (Chicago), Ankit Khandelwal (Chicago) and Steven Engelhardt (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for birth time-based first in, first out (FIFO) cache reaping are provided. A method includes obtaining an object to be stored in a cache; storing the object in the cache such that the object is associated with a birth time at which the storage occurred, wherein the birth time is constant as changes to the object are synchronized to the cache; calculating a cac...