US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 18 for "Atomic operation predictor to predict whether an atomic operation will complete successfully" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,557, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Atomic operation predictor to predict whether an atomic operation will complete successfully" was invented by Brian R. Mestan (Austin, Texas), Gideon N. Levinsky (Cedar Park, Texas) and Michael L. Karm (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a processor comprises an atomic predictor circuit to predict whether or not an atomic operation will complete successfully. The prediction may be used when a subsequent load operation to the same memory location as the atomic operation is executed, to determine whether or not to forward store data...