US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 28 for "Super-temporal cache replacement policy" (Colorado, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,823, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Super-temporal cache replacement policy" was invented by Gabriel Hsiuwei Loh (Bellevue, Wash.), Joseph Lee Greathouse (Austin, Texas), William Louie Walker (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Paul James Moyer (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cache replacement policies are described. In accordance with the described techniques, a request for data is received and a cache replacement policy controls how a controller responds to the request. The cache replacement policy assigns each cacheline a priority value, which indicates whether the ...