US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on April 1 for "Bypassing cache directory lookups for processing-in-memory instructions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,470, issued on April 1, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Bypassing cache directory lookups for processing-in-memory instructions" was invented by Travis Henry Boraten (Austin, Texas), Jagadish B. Kotra (Austin, Texas) and David Andrew Werner (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selectively bypassing cache directory lookups for processing-in-memory instructions is described. In one example, a system maintains information describing a status-clean or dirty-of a memory address, where a dirty status indicates that the memory address is modified in a cache and thus different than the memory addr...