ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,148, issued on July 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Variable execution time atomic operations" was invented by Dean E. Walker (Allen, Texas) and Tony M. Brewer (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for variable execution time atomic operations are described herein. When an atomic operation for a memory device is received, the run length of the operation is measured. If the run length is beyond a threshold, a cache line for the operation is locked while the operation runs. A result of the operation is queued until it can be written to the cache line. At that point, the cache lin...