US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 27 for "Cache memory with per-sector cache residency controls" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,175, issued on May 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cache memory with per-sector cache residency controls" was invented by Michael Fetterman (Lancaster, Mass.), Shirish Gadre (Fremont, Calif.), Steven James Heinrich (Madison, Ala.), Martin Stich (Memmingen, Germany) and Liang Yin (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include techniques for managing cache memory in a computing system. The computing system includes a sectored cache memory that provides a mechanism for software applications to directly invalidate data items stored in the cache memory on a sector-by-sector basis, wh...