US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 1 for "Cache line re-reference interval prediction using physical page address" (Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,265, issued on July 1, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cache line re-reference interval prediction using physical page address" was invented by Jieming Yin (Bothell, Wash.), Yasuko Eckert (Redmond, Wash.) and Subhash Sethumurugan (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing cache line re-reference interval prediction using a physical page address are disclosed. When a cache line is accessed, a controller retrieves a re-reference interval counter value associated with the line. If the counter is less than a first threshold, then the address of the cac...