US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on June 3 for "Cascading execution of atomic operations" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,273, issued on June 3, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Cascading execution of atomic operations" was invented by Jimshed Mirza (Markham, Canada) and Mark Fowler (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cascading execution of atomic operations, including: receiving a request for each thread of a plurality of threads to perform an atomic operation, wherein the plurality of threads comprises a plurality of thread subsets each corresponding to a local memory, wherein the local memory for a thread subset is accessible by the thread subset and inaccessib...