ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,529, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Streaming transfers and ordering model" was invented by Rahul Nagarajan (San Jose, Calif.), Arpith Chacko Jacob (Los Altos, Calif.), Suvinay Subramanian (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hema Hariharan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is a hardware/software interface for asynchronous data movement between an off-core memory and a core-local memory, referred to as "stream transfers", and a stream ordering model. The stream transfers allow software to more efficiently express common data-movement patterns, specifically ones se...