ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,822, issued on May 12, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to facilitate read-modify-write support in a victim cache" was invented by Naveen Bhoria (Plano, Texas), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas) and Pete Michael Hippleheuser (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate read-modify-write support in a victim cache. An example apparatus includes a first storage coupled to a controller, a second storage coupled to the controller and parallel coupled to the first storage, and a storage queue coupled to t...