ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,146, issued on July 22, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Shared memory device with hybrid coherency" was invented by David Alan Boles (Austin, Texas), David Joseph Hawkins (Austin, Texas) and Sandipkumar Ladhani (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory array with first and second memory regions, multiple communication ports and coherency control circuitry. The communication ports couple the memory device to host computers, enabling a first host to write a data block to the second region, write a message, including a data descriptor of the data block, to the first or second r...