US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on May 12 for "Cache coherence shared state suppression" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,809, issued on May 12, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Cache coherence shared state suppression" was invented by Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas) and Kai Chirca (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a level two (L2) controller, a first request for a cache line in a shared cache coherence state; mapping, by the L2 controller, the first request to a second request for a cache line in an exclusive cache coherence state; and responding, by the L2 controller, to the second request."

The patent was filed...