US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 15 for "Cache replacement policy optimization for producer-consumer flows" (Arizona, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,071, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cache replacement policy optimization for producer-consumer flows" was invented by Ramakrishna Huggahalli (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Shachar Raindel (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure includes techniques for cache memory replacement in a processing unit. A first data production operation to store first data to a first cache line of the cache memory is detected at a first time. A retention status of the first cache line is updated to a first retention level as a result of the first data productio...