ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,466, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Circuit and method for translation lookaside buffer (TLB) implementation" was invented by Albert Ma (Belmont, Mass.) and Oded Tsur (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit and corresponding method provide a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) implementation. The circuit comprises a plurality of TLB banks and TLB logic. The TLB logic computes a plurality of hash values of a tag included in a memory request. The TLB logic locates, based on hash values of the plurality of hash values computed, a contiguous translation entry (TE) and a non-contiguous T...