ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,421, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for decoupled access-execute near-memory processing" was invented by Berkin Akin (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Alaa R. Alameldeen (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for decoupled access-execute near-memory processing include examples of first or second circuitry of a near-memory processor receiving instructions that cause the first circuitry to implement system memory access operations to access one or more data chunks and the second circuitry to implement compute operations using the one or more data chunks."

The patent was filed ...