US Patent Issued to Apple on May 26 for "Processing of synchronization barrier instructions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,070, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Processing of synchronization barrier instructions" was invented by Deepankar Duggal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kulin N Kothari (Cupertino, Calif.), Mridul Agarwal (Saratoga, Calif.), Chang Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Yanran Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard F Russo (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuan C Chou (Lost Gatos, Calif.) and Douglas C Holman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, e.g., a system on a chip (SOC), may include one or more processors. A processor may execute an instruction synchronization barrier (ISB) instruction to enforce an ordering constraint ...