ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,831, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NUMASCALE AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Snoop filter scalability" was invented by Thibaut Palfer-Sollier (Oslo, Norway), Steffen Persvold (Oslo, Norway), Helge Simonsen (Oslo, Norway), Mario Lodde (Borore, Italy), Thomas Moen (Oslo, Norway), Einar Rustad (Oslo, Norway), Goutam Debnath (Beaverton, Ore.) and Kai Arne Midjas (Vinterbro, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a snoop filter device, a node controller, a multicomponent computer system, a computer-implemented method, a data processing system and a computer-readable storage medium aiming at enabling improved tracking of a...