US Patent Issued to NXP USA on June 30 for "System and method of exclusive memory access among multiple processing devices" (Czech, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,106, issued on June 30, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method of exclusive memory access among multiple processing devices" was invented by Quyen Pho (Pflugerville, Texas), Ujwala Malwade (Austin, Texas) and Martin Mienkina (Bystrice Nad Olsi, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including processing cores, a shared memory, a shift table that stores a maximum number of reservations to locations in the memory, and an exclusive monitor that uses the shift table and an eviction policy to enforce core synchronization. The eviction policy is based on priority, age of valid reservatio...