ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,238, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and device for rapidly searching cache" was invented by Qunyi Yang (Beijing), Tingli Cui (Xi'an, China) and Xinglin Gui (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for rapidly searching a cache are provided. The method for rapidly searching a cache includes: translating a source identifier (SID) to a domain identifier (DID) according to an extended flag from the software by searching a context cache, wherein the extended flag indicates that a current context entry stored in the context cache is a normal context e...