US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 24 for "Zero value memory access optimization" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,776, issued on June 24, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Zero value memory access optimization" was invented by Varun Agrawal (Westford, Mass.) and Georgios Tziantzioulis (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the described techniques, a device includes a memory system and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory system. The processor receives a load instruction from the memory system instructing the processor to load data associated with an address. In response, the processor performs a lookup for the address in a bloom filter that tracks zero value cache lines t...