ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,190, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Streaming wave coalescer circuit" was invented by John Stephen Junkins (Bend, Ore.), Christopher J. Brennan (Boxborough, Mass.), Ian Richard Beaumont (Lindfield, Australia), Kellie Marks (Manly, Australia), Matthaeus G. Chajdas (Munich), Max Oberberger (Munich), Michael John Bedy (Groton, Mass.), Michael Mantor (Orlando, Fla.) and Sean Keely (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Streaming Wave Coalescer (SWC) circuit stores a first set of state values associated with a first subset of threads of a first wave in a bin based on each ...