US Patent Issued to SiFive on May 20 for "Orderability of operations" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,772, issued on May 20, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Orderability of operations" was invented by Eric Andrew Gouldey (Fort Collins, Colo.), Michael Klinglesmith (Chambery, France), Henry Cook (Berkeley, Calif.) and Wesley Waylon Terpstra (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing orders of operations between one or more clients and one or more servers is disclosed. The method includes partitioning addressable regions of logical servers on or within an interconnect link into multiple regions including a first orderable region, and providing logical client an ability to push ordering r...