ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,256, issued on July 1, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device with hypervisor-based cache management for multi-processor system and control method for the same" was invented by Masahiro Hasegawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a plurality of processors capable of executing a plurality of virtual machines and a cache memory. Each of the plurality of virtual machines executes a different operating system from each other. A hypervisor sets allocation information so as to allocate ways of the cache memory which can be used by the virtual machine. When outputting a mem...