US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 12 for "Detecting infinite loops in a programmable atomic transaction" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,616, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Detecting infinite loops in a programmable atomic transaction" was invented by Tony Brewer (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums to detect and terminate programmable atomic transactions that are stuck in an infinite loop. In order to detect and terminate these transactions, the programmable atomic unit may use an instruction counter that increments each time an instruction is executed during execution of a programmable atomic transaction. If the instruction count...