US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on March 3 for "Physical address proxy reuse management" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,702, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Physical address proxy reuse management" was invented by John G. Favor (San Francisco), Srivatsan Srinivasan (Cedar Park, Texas) and Robert Haskell Utley (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each load/store queue entry holds a load/store physical address proxy (PAP) for use as a proxy for a load/store physical memory line address (PMLA). The load/store PAP comprises a set index and a way that uniquely identifies an L2 cache entry holding a memory line at the load/store PMLA when an L1 cache provides the load/store PAP during the load/sto...