US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 17 for "Approach for managing near-memory processing commands from multiple processor threads to prevent interference at near-memory processing elements" (California, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,307, issued on June 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sant Clara, Calif.).

"Approach for managing near-memory processing commands from multiple processor threads to prevent interference at near-memory processing elements" was invented by Johnathan Alsop (Bellevue, Wash.), Laurent S. White (Austin, Texas) and Shaizeen Aga (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for managing near-memory processing commands ("PIM commands") from multiple processor threads in a manner to prevent interference and maintain correctness at near-memory processing elements. A memory controller uses thread iden...