US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 20 for "Store gather buffer having an automatically adjustable merge period" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,660, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Store gather buffer having an automatically adjustable merge period" was invented by Sadayan Ghows Ghani Sadayan Ebramsah Mo Abdul (Austin, Texas) and Abhijna Balu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A store gather buffer is disclosed that can determine when to close/drain an entry so that it does not waste clock cycles waiting for data (i.e., stores) that will never arrive. The store gather buffer is configured to determine byte-patterns of entries as they are drained. When a particular byte-pattern appears multiple times, then the store gather bu...