US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Aug. 19 for "Atomic instruction set and architecture with bus arbitration locking" (Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,429, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Atomic instruction set and architecture with bus arbitration locking" was invented by Robert Ellis (Gilbert, Ariz.), Stephen Bowling (Chandler, Ariz.) and Michael Catherwood (Tyler, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of manufacture includes a non-transitory machine-readable medium. The medium includes instructions. The instructions, when read and executed by a processor, cause the processor to identify a first input instruction in a code stream to be executed, determine that the first input instruction includes an atomic operation desig...