ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,141, issued on July 22, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Running average cache hit rate" was invented by Edgar Munoz (Austin, Texas), Chintan S. Patel (Austin, Texas), Gregg Donley (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes a first register that stores a cumulative delta value and a second register that stores an average cache hit rate. The device also includes a control circuit that calculates a cache hit rate and updates the cumulative delta value based on the cache hit rate and the average cache hit rat...