US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 30 for "Storing indications of cleared cache lines" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,236, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Storing indications of cleared cache lines" was invented by Jagadish B. Kotra (Austin, Texas), John Kalamatianos (Arlington, Mass.) and David A. Kaplan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storing indications of cleared cache lines is described. In one example, a cache system includes a plurality of cache levels and a cleared page tag structure coupled to a level of the plurality of cache levels that detects a cache line within the plurality of cache levels that is cleared of data. The cleared page tag structure then stores a tag in t...