US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Accelerated memory copy operations" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,339, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Accelerated memory copy operations" was invented by Ron Diamant (San Jose, Calif.) and Xin Tong (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opportunistic approach is described to accelerate certain memory copy operations to be performed by a computing engine by executing instructions. An instruction for a memory copy operation can be identified that has a first data type with a smaller number of bits per data element than supported by the computing engine to perform the copy operation. The instruction can be replaced with another instruction that has ...