ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,108, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hardware-accelerated atomic data structures" was invented by Matthaeus G. Chajdas (Munich), Christopher J. Brennan (Boxborough, Mass.), Dominik Joerg Baumeister (Munich), Fabian Robert Sebastian Wildgrube (Monkeberg, Germany), John Stephen Junkins (Bend, Ore.) and Nicolai Haehnle (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes an accelerated access circuit, a data structure, and a hardware scheduler. The data structure is managed by software and bound to the accelerated access circuit. The hardware scheduler is configured to schedu...