US Patent Issued to SiFive on Oct. 27 for "Memory request combination indication" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,385, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory request combination indication" was invented by Eric Andrew Gouldey (Fort Collins, Colo.), Wesley Waylon Terpstra (San Mateo, Calif.) and Andrew Waterman (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor core may include circuitry that fetches a first instruction followed by a second instruction. The first instruction may be configured to cause a first memory request, and the second instruction may be configured to cause a second memory request. The circuitry may determine that the first memory request is a candidate for combination with the...