ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,590, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Managing a system level cache" was invented by Ashutosh Pandey (Bangalore, India), Steven E. Molnar (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Mirko Andjic (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Pabalkar (Fremont, Calif.), Harold W. Cain III (Raleigh, N.C.) and Prabal Sharma (Santa Clara, 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 disclosed techniques include a cache policy manager that monitors activity of various components that access a common cache memory. The cache policy manager establishes cache rules...