ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,906, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Bulk memory initialization" was invented by Yuejian Xie (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qian Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Xingyu Jiang (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to technology for bulk initialization of memory in a computer system. The computer system comprises a processor core comprising a load store unit and a last level cache in communication with the processor core. The last level cache is configured to receive bulk store operations from the load store unit. Each bulk store operation includes a physical add...