ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,990, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Apparatus and method for remote atomic floating point operations" was invented by Christopher J. Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jonas Svennebring (Sollentuna, Sweden), Doddaballapur Jayasimha (Saratoga, Calif.), Lingxiang Xiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), David Koufaty (Portland, Ore.) and Samantika Sury (Westford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to atomic memory operations with floating point values. An example processor comprises: a control register to store rounding mode and denormal mode control bits to indicate a rounding mode and denor...