US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 12 for "Delayed snoop for improved multi-process false sharing parallel thread performance" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,696, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Delayed snoop for improved multi-process false sharing parallel thread performance" was invented by Kai Chirca (Dallas) and Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for maintaining cache coherency comprising storing data blocks associated with a main process in a cache line of a main cache memory, storing a first local copy of the data blocks in a first local cache memory of a first processor, storing a second local copy of the set of data blocks in a second local cache memory of a second processor executing a fir...