ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,057, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Scatter-gather atomic optimization" was invented by Jeffrey C. Allan (Boxborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to receiving a request for an atomic operation on a first element of a vector comprising a first address and a first data value, a processing system determines a request history associated with the first element. The processing system selectively alters the first request, based on the request history and the first data value."
The patent was filed on Dec. 28, 2021, under Application No. 17/563,262.
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