US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 17 for "Cache coherence using adaptive coherency tracking based on cacheline size and cacheline sector size" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,794, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cache coherence using adaptive coherency tracking based on cacheline size and cacheline sector size" was invented by Mukund Ramakrishna (Austin, Texas) and Dimitrios Kaseridis (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology provides a method including determining a cacheline sector associated with a snoop filter (SFT) having a plurality of SFT entries, determining a number of cachelines in the identified cacheline sector that are cached by one or more agents, and determining, based on the number of cachelines in the id...