ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,329, issued on April 14, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Atomic memory operations for address translation" was invented by John Ingalls (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andrew Waterman (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for atomic memory operations for address translation. For example, an integrated circuit (e.g., a processor) for executing instructions includes a memory system including random access memory; a bus connected to the memory system; and an atomic memory operation circuitry configured to receive a request from the bus to access an entry in a page table store...