ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,707, issued on March 3, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for cache analysis and management" was invented by Cesar Gomes (Medford, Mass.), Maziar Mehdizadehamiraski (Medford, Mass.) and Mark Hempstead (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and media for managing a shared memory cache in a computing system. The management of the shared memory cache can include, for example, determining cache statistics by probabilistically sampling the memory cache: estimating contention of the memory cache based on capturing theft-based contention; and re-partitioning the memory...