ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,518, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deterministic mixed latency cache" was invented by Patrick J. Shyvers (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and processing device for accessing data is provided. The processing device comprises a cache and a processor. The cache comprises a first data section having a first cache hit latency and a second data section having a second cache hit latency that is different from the first cache hit latency of the first data section. The processor is configured to request access to data in memory, the data corresponding to a me...