US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Decoupling atomicity from operation size" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,295, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Decoupling atomicity from operation size" was invented by Francesco Spadini (Sunset Valley, Texas), Gideon Levinsky (Cedar Park, Texas) and Mridul Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a processor implements a different atomicity size (for memory consistency order) than the operation size. More particularly, the processor may implement a smaller atomicity size than the operation size. For example, for multiple register loads, the atomicity size may be the register size. In another example, the vector element size may be the ...