US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on April 7 for "Preemptive flushing of processing-in-memory data structures" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,650, issued on April 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Preemptive flushing of processing-in-memory data structures" was invented by David Andrew Werner (Austin, Texas), Travis Henry Boraten (Austin, Texas) and Michael Warren Boyer (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preemptive flushing of data involved in executing a processing-in-memory command, from a cache system to main memory that is accessible by a processing-in-memory component, is described. In one example, a system includes an asynchronous flush controller that receives an indication of a subsequent processing-in-memory command...