US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 9 for "Atomic update instructions with bit masking" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,931, issued on June 9, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Atomic update instructions with bit masking" was invented by Reshma Lal (Vancouver, Wash.), David A. Kaplan (Austin, Texas), Jelena Ilic (Austin, Texas) and Jeremy Wayne Powell (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A masked atomic update instruction is described that atomically performs compare and exchange operations on select bits of a data structure. Executing the masked atomic update instruction compares respective source values with respective values of bits stored at a destination data storage location. If the respective bit values...