ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,748, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Selective fill for logical control over hardware multilevel memory" was invented by Rajat Agarwal (Portland, Ore.), Sai Prashanth Muralidhara (Portland, Ore.), Wei P. Chen (Portland, Ore.), Nishant Singh (Bengaluru, India), Sharada Venkateswaran (San Francisco) and Daniel W. Liu (Concord, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a multilevel memory such as a two level memory (2LM), where a first level memory acts as a cache for the second level memory. A memory controller or cache controller can detect a cache miss in the first level memory for...