ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,755, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Data processing apparatus and method for address translation" was invented by Carlos Garcia-Tobin (Ely, Great Britain), Bruce James Mathewson (Papworth Everard, Great Britain), Matthew Lucien Evans (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Richard Roy Grisenthwaite (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided for storing a plurality of translation entries in a cache, each translation entry corresponding to one of a plurality of page table entries and defining a translation between a first address and a second address, a...