US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 18 for "Processor support for using cache way-locking to simultaneously record plural execution contexts into independent execution traces" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,055, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Processor support for using cache way-locking to simultaneously record plural execution contexts into independent execution traces" was invented by Jordi Mola (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using way-locking to record plural execution contexts into independent execution traces. A processor partitions a cache into a first subset of ways that are locked to a first context recorded into a first trace and a second subset of ways that are locked to a second context recorded into a second trace. The processor also detects a memory...