US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 20 for "Multi-core processor with timeout-based cache coherence" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,662, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Multi-core processor with timeout-based cache coherence" was invented by Jae-Eon Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Rohyoung Myung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes forwarding, by a first core, a read request for a cache line to a first cache, forwarding, by the first cache, a Set-timeout shared-state request to a directory in response to the read request, forwarding, by the directory, the Set-timeout shared-state request to a second cache, in response to the Set-timeout shared-state request, changing a sta...