ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,344, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Cache writeback circuit" was invented by Alexander Gendler (Kiriat Ata, Israel), Ilya Granovsky (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Idan Mondjak Kedem (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Or Davidi (Modi'in, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache writeback circuit is disclosed for writing back, without invalidating, dirty cache lines. The cache writeback circuit is configured to enter an active state based on detecting a trigger condition indicative of cache misses to a memory cache circuit within a memory hierarchy of a computer memory subsystem causing cache line eviction activ...