ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,521, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to facilitate write miss caching in cache system" was invented by Naveen Bhoria (Plano, Texas), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas) and Pete Michael Hippleheuser (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to facilitate write miss caching in cache system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first cache storage; a second cache storage, wherein the second cache storage includes a first portion operable to store a first set of data evicted from the first cache sto...