ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,224, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Debug trace of cache memory requests" was invented by Andrew J. Beaumont-Smith (Cambridge, Mass.), Sandeep Gupta (San Mateo, Calif.), Krishna C. Potnuru (San Jose, Calif.) and Matthias Knoth (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a plurality of processor circuits, a cache memory circuit, and a trace control circuit. The trace control circuit may be configured, in response to activation of a mode to record information indicative of program execution of at least one processor circuit of the plurality of processor circuits, to...