US Patent Issued to Arm on July 29 for "Cache-line retention hint information for conditional write instruction" (British, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,350, issued on July 29, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Cache-line retention hint information for conditional write instruction" was invented by Matthew James Horsnell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andreas Lars Sandberg (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Philip Speier (Wake Forest, N.C.), Robin Alexander Emery (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Eric Ola Harald Liljedahl (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to instruction decoding circuitry decoding a conditional write instruction, processing circuitry determines whether a predetermined condition is satisfied for a target cache line corresponding to a ...