ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,232, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Atomic memory update unit and methods" was invented by Steven J. Clohset (San Francisco), Jason R. Redgrave (Mountain View, Calif.) and Luke T. Peterson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, an update unit can evaluate condition(s) in an update request and update one or more memory locations based on the condition evaluation. The update unit can operate atomically to determine whether to effect the update and to make the update. Updates can include one or more of incrementing and swapping values. An update requ...