US Patent Issued to MediaTek on July 15 for "Fast synchronization mechanism for heterogeneous computing" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,904, issued on July 15, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Fast synchronization mechanism for heterogeneous computing" was invented by Hsing-Chuang Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Shu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hong-Yi Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heterogeneous computing system performs data synchronization. The heterogeneous computing system includes a system memory, a cluster, and a processing unit outside the cluster. The cluster includes a sync circuit, inner processors, and a snoop filter. The sync circuit is operative to receive a sync command indicating a sync address range. The sync command ...