ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,257, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Smart cache cleaner" was invented by Dilip Kumar Jha (Hyderabad, India), William Louie Walker (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Durgesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache cleaner controller is described. In one or more examples, an apparatus includes a cache directory including status bits associated with cache locations within cache storage and a cache cleaner controller. The cache cleaner controller is configured to detect that a cache cleaner threshold has been reached. The cache cleaner threshold defines that a thresh...