US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Nov. 4 for "Scheduling processing-in-memory transactions" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,684, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scheduling processing-in-memory transactions" was invented by Alexandru Dutu (Kirkland, Wash.) and Sooraj Puthoor (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scheduling processing-in-memory transactions is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a memory controller receives a transaction header from a host, where the transaction header describes a number of operations to be executed by a processing-in-memory component as part of performing the transaction. The memory controller adds the transaction header to a buffer and sends ...