ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,775, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Controller with caching and non-caching modes" was invented by Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas), Timothy David Anderson (University City, Texas) and David Matthew Thompson (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a CPU core, a first cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core, and a second memory coupled to the cache subsystem. The first cache subsystem includes a configuration register, a first memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a request directed to an address in the second memory and, in response to the conf...