US Patent Issued to Intel on June 23 for "Scheduling merged store operations in compliance with store ordering rules" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,093, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scheduling merged store operations in compliance with store ordering rules" was invented by Mark Dechene (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ryan Carlson (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ricardo Daniel Queiros Alves (Portland, Ore.), Yan Zeng (Portland, Ore.), Richard Klass (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Brendan West (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for scheduling merged store operations are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a data cache; a fill buffer; a store buffer to store first information associated with a first retired store operation and second inf...