ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,246, issued on April 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hardware-assisted spinlock" was invented by Shreeroop Ajaykumar (Kannur, India), Shaju Abraham (Bangalore, India) and Naveen M (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a plurality of wait queues implemented in a first portion of a memory unit configured to store a plurality of lock requests. The system includes a lock head array implemented in a second portion of the memory unit configured to store a plurality of lock heads. Each wait queue of the plurality of wait queues is mapped to one lock head in the l...