ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,792, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Scalable cache coherency protocol" was invented by James Vash (San Ramon, Calif.), Gaurav Garg (San Jose, Calif.), Brian P. Lilly (San Francisco), Ramesh B. Gunna (San Jose, Calif.), Steven R. Hutsell (San Jose, Calif.), Lital Levy-Rubin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Per H. Hammarlund (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Harshavardhan Kaushikkar (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include multiple coherent agents, where a given coherent agent includes one or more caches configured to cache data. Memory controller circuitry may control one or more memory ci...