US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 16 for "Adaptive system probe action to minimize input/output dirty data transfers" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,179, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive system probe action to minimize input/output dirty data transfers" was invented by Li Ou (Austin, Texas), Ganesh Balakrishnan (Austin, Texas) and Amit Apte (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive system probe action to minimize input/output dirty data transfers is described. In one or more implementations, a system includes a processor, a memory configured to store data, and a cache configured to store a portion of the data stored in the memory for execution by the processor. The system also includes a cache coherence...