US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 10 for "Multicast and reflective memory behavior for memory model consistency" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,820, issued on June 10, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multicast and reflective memory behavior for memory model consistency" was invented by Glenn Alan Dearth (Groton, Mass.), Mark Hummel (Franklin, Mass.) and Daniel Joseph Lustig (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a memory model may support multicasting where a single request for a memory access operation may be propagated to multiple physical addresses associated with multiple processing elements (e.g., corresponding to respective local memory). Thus, the request may cause data to be read from and/or written to memory for e...