ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,271, issued on June 3, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Distributed system level cache" was invented by Mark Landers (Hartwell, Great Britain), Ian King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Alistair Goudie (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Michael John Livesley (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor and a method of obtaining data for a processor are provided. The processor comprises at least a first core, a second core, and a distributed cache. The distributed cache comprises a first cache slice connected to the first core and a second cache slice connected to...