US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on April 14 for "Accelerated read, modify, write operations" (Texas, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,161, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Accelerated read, modify, write operations" was invented by Michael Catherwood (Tyler, Texas), David Mickey (Chandler, Ariz.) and Ashish Desai (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of manufacture includes a non-transitory machine-readable medium. The medium includes instructions. The instructions, when read and executed by a processor, cause the processor to determine that a first input instruction in a code stream to be executed is to perform a read-modify-write operation, determine that the first input instruction is to targ...