ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,811, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for exclusive access fairness in memory systems with distributed exclusive access management" was invented by Philippe Boucard (Le Chesnay, France), Ameline Le Rouzic (Versailles, France), Nordine Chaibelaine (Rungis, France) and Olivier Loison (Sevres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for memory systems that support enhanced exclusive access fairness operations for scalable exclusive monitor architectures. In a first aspect, device includes a processing system that includes one or more ...