US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 17 for "Reducing probe filter accesses for processing in memory requests" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,795, issued on June 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reducing probe filter accesses for processing in memory requests" was invented by Michael Warren Boyer (Bellevue, Wash.) and Johnathan Alsop (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reducing probe filter accesses in response to processing-in-memory (PIM) requests are disclosed. A coherent secondary unit receives PIM requests targeting a corresponding PIM device. For each PIM request that is received, the coherent secondary unit performs a lookup of a PIM address table (PAT). If the address of the PI...