ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,838, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Integration of application indicated maximum time to cache to least recently used track demoting schemes in a cache management system of a storage controller" was invented by Lokesh M. Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.), Joseph Hayward (Tucson, Ariz.), Kyler A. Anderson (Sahuarita, Ariz.) and Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computational device receives an indication that specifies a maximum retention time in cache for a first plurality of tracks, wherein no maximum retention time is specified for a second plurality of...