US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "Coherence directory way tracking in coherent agents" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,235, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Coherence directory way tracking in coherent agents" was invented by Ilya Granovsky (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Amanvir Singh Sidana (San Jose, Calif.), Sandeep Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tom Greenshtein (Haifa, Israel) and Vivek Venkatraman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a plurality of coherent agents, and a coherence directory that includes directory ways for storing coherency information. The coherence directory may be configured to determine that a cache block that is not currently cached among the coherent agents, is...