ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,047, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Filtering invalidation requests" was invented by Yasuo Ishii (Austin, Texas), Matthew Andrew Rafacz (Austin, Texas), Guillaume Bolbenes (Antibes, France), Houdhaifa Bouzguarrou (Valbonne, France) and . Abhishek Raja (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus is provided. Cache circuitry caches data, the data being indexed according to execution contexts of processing circuitry. Receive circuitry receives invalidation requests each referencing a specific execution context in the execution contexts. Invalidation circuitry invali...