US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 14 for "Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to atomically store to memory data wider than a natively supported data width" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,558, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to atomically store to memory data wider than a natively supported data width" was invented by Vedvyas Shanbhogue (Austin, Texas), Stephen J. Robinson (Austin, Texas), Christopher D. Bryant (Austin, Texas) and Jason W. Brandt (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a widest set of data registers that corresponds to a given logical processor. Each of the data registers of the widest set have a first width in bits. A decode unit that corresponds to the given logical processor is to decode...