US Patent Issued to Ampere Computing on June 23 for "Memory coherence with early store completion" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,094, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ampere Computing LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory coherence with early store completion" was invented by Jonathan Perry (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, an apparatus comprises a writer agent, wherein the writer agent may obtain exclusive access to at least one coherence granule of shared memory with respect to one or more other agents. The writer agent may mark, at the writer agent, completion of a store of the at least one coherence granule prior to receipt of data for the at least one coherence granule from the shared memory. The writer agent may receive the data...