ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,444, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method to accelerate reduce operations in graphics processor" was invented by Yong Jiang (Shanghai), Yuanyuan Li (Shanghai), Jianghong Du (Shanghai), Kuilin Chen (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Thomas A. Tetzlaff (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a system, method, and apparatus to accelerate reduce operations in a graphics processor. One embodiment provides an apparatus including one or more processors, the one or more processors including a first logic unit to perform a merged write, barrier, and read operat...