US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 23 for "Atomic operations implemented using memory services of data storage devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,925, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Atomic operations implemented using memory services of data storage devices" was invented by Luca Bert (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device having a computer express link (CXL) connection between a memory sub-system and a host system and a flag configured to indicate an atomic operation being in progress in the memory sub-system. Over the connection, the memory sub-system can attach a portion of its fast, random access memory as a memory device, and a non-volatile memory as a storage device. The flag is set in the memory dev...