ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,526, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Non-blocking parallel bulk memory operations" was invented by Johnathan Robert Alsop (Seattle), Shaizeen Dilawarhusen Aga (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Khaled Hamidouche (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-blocking processing system are described. In accordance with the described techniques, a pending range store receives, at a start of a bulk memory operation, a pending memory range of the bulk memory operation. A logic unit includes at least one of check conflict logic or check address logic. The logic unit detects a conflicting me...