US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Dec. 16 for "Physical address proxy (PAP) residency determination for reduction of PAP reuse" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,050, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Physical address proxy (PAP) residency determination for reduction of PAP reuse" was invented by John G. Favor (San Francisco), Srivatsan Srinivasan (Cedar Park, Texas) and Robert Haskell Utley (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a cache memory subsystem including a first-level cache (L1) and an N-way set associative second-level cache (L2) inclusive of L1, including receiving a physical memory line address (PMLA) for allocation into L2, using a set index of the PMLA to select a set of N ways of L2, for each way ...