ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,791, issued on June 17, was assigned to Akeana Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Coherency management using distributed snoop" was invented by Sanjay Patel (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for coherency management using distributed snoop requests are disclosed. A plurality of processor cores is accessed. The plurality of processor cores comprises a coherency domain. Two or more processor cores within the plurality of processor cores generate read operations for a shared memory structure coupled to the plurality of processor cores. Snoop requests are ordered in a two-dimensional matrix. The snoop requests are ba...