ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,456, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Coherent communication between a processor core and an accelerator" was invented by Simon Weishaupt (Kernen im Remstal, Germany), Cedric Lichtenau (Stuttgart, Germany), Simon Friedmann (Boeblingen, Germany) and Preetham M. Lobo (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more systems, devices, computer program products and/or computer-implemented methods of use provided herein relate to communication between a processor core and an accelerator. For example, a system can comprise a memory that can store computer executable componen...