US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 2 for "Runtime flushing to persistency in heterogenous systems" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,894, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Runtime flushing to persistency in heterogenous systems" was invented by Alexander Joseph Branover (Chestnut Hill, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Runtime flushing to persistency in heterogenous systems is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a system may include a persistent memory in electronic communication with at least one cache and a controller configured to command the at least one cache to flush dirty data to the persistent memory in response to a dirtiness of the at least one cache reaching a cache dirtiness th...