US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 20 for "Memory side cache request handling" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,300, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory side cache request handling" was invented by Dean E. Walker (Allen, Texas) and Tony M. Brewer (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for memory side cache request handling are described herein. When a memory request is received, a cache set for the memory request is determined. Here, the cache set has multiple ways and each way corresponds to a cache line. It can be detected that a way of the multiple ways is not ready for the memory request. In this case, a representation of the memory request is stored in a queue of mu...