ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,809, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Logging cache line lifetime hints when recording bit-accurate trace" was invented by Jordi Mola (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logging cache line lifetime hints when recording an execution trace. A microprocessor detects occurrence of a first cache event that initiates a lifetime of a cache line within a memory cache, and initiates logging first trace information indicating a beginning of the lifetime of the cache line within the memory cache. Subsequently, the microprocessor detects occurrence of a second cache event that e...