US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 10 for "Efficient execution of atomic instructions for single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architectures" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,413, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient execution of atomic instructions for single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architectures" was invented by Shirish Gadre (Fremont, Calif.), Daniel Robert Johnson (Austin, Texas), Omkar Paranjape (Austin, Texas), Poornachandra B. Rao (Cedar Park, Texas) and Matthew Alan Kenny (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first set of threads having a same address corresponding to the shared memory is identified from a group of active threads associated with an instruction to update a shared memory. A first thread of the first set of threa...