US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 15 for "Method of notifying a process or programmable atomic operation traps" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,941, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Method of notifying a process or programmable atomic operation traps" was invented by Tony Brewer (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples, are methods, systems, programmable atomic units, and machine-readable mediums that provide an exception as a response to the calling processor. That is, the programmable atomic unit will send a response to the calling processor. The calling processor will recognize that the exception has been raised and will handle the exception. Because the calling processor knows which process triggere...