US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 20 for "Address based hardware snoop logic with configurable snoopable space settings for hardware assist" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,758, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Address based hardware snoop logic with configurable snoopable space settings for hardware assist" was invented by Howard Michael Haynie (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Michael James Becht (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Mushfiq Us Saleheen (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Dan Vangor (Mahopac, N.Y.), Girish Gopala Kurup (Bangalore, India), Luke Hopkins (Peterborough, N.H.) and Bruce Ratcliff (Red Hook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for snooping input/output (I/O) events in a computing system are described. An example technique includes obt...