US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on July 15 for "Redirection in a processor cache" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,898, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Redirection in a processor cache" was invented by Pranjal Kumar Dutta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments of a processor cache are presented herein. The processor cache may be configured to support redirection of memory blocks between cache lines, including between cache lines in different sets of the processor cache, thereby improving the efficiency of the processor cache by increasing the utilization of the processor cache and reducing cache misses for the processor cache. The redirection of memory bl...