ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,833, issued on May 6, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"System and method for cache invalidation" was invented by Michael Gerard Jaskiewicz (Urbandale, Iowa), Sarah Barnes Atlas (Austin, Texas), Mukesh Chowdhary (Round Rock, Texas) and Lloyd Douglas Forrest (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of a cache invalidation method includes storing an invalidation status usable by a computing node to identify, from a broadcast cache invalidation queue, a last processed invalidation that was processed with respect to an object cache used by the node. The method further comprises the node determining ...