ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,091, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Monitoring memory locations to identify whether data stored at the memory locations has been modified" was invented by Matthew James Horsnell (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises address storage circuitry to store indications of a first set of memory locations of a shared memory; a capacity indicator to indicate whether a capacity of the address storage circuitry has been reached, and monitoring circuitry to monitor the first set of memory locations and a second set of memory locations of the shared memory, identif...