US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 4 for "Hardware transactional memory-assisted flat combining" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,083, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Hardware transactional memory-assisted flat combining" was invented by Alex Kogan (Needham, Mass.) and Yosef Lev (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HTM-assisted Combining Framework (HCF) may enable multiple (combiner and non-combiner) threads to access a shared data structure concurrently using hardware transactional memory (HTM). As long as a combiner executes in a hardware transaction and ensures that the lock associated with the data structure is available, it may execute concurrently with other threads operating on the data structur...