ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,144, issued on July 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Cache control instructions using object lifetime information" was invented by Christopher Thomas Kennelly (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and Xinliang David Li (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides instructions to manipulate the state of a processor's cache. An application may send an instruction directly to the processor, providing it with information about memory allocation or deallocation events occurring within the application. This direct communication facilitates immediate synchronization between the application a...