ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,746, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"DSB operation with excluded region" was invented by Jeff Gonion (Campbell, Calif.), John H. Kelm (Belmont, Calif.), James Vash (San Ramon, Calif.), Pradeep Kanapathipillai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mridul Agarwal (Saratoga, Calif.), Gideon N. Levinsky (Cedar Park, Texas), Richard F. Russo (Saratoga, Calif.) and Christopher M. Tsay (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to data synchronization barrier operations. A system includes a first processor that may receive a data barrier operation request from a second processor includ...