ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,284, issued on June 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to facilitate atomic operations in victim cache" 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 atomic operation in victim cache are disclosed. An example system includes a first cache storage to store a first set of data; a second cache storage to store a second set of data that has been evicted from the first cache storage; and a storage queue couple...