ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,963, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Implied fence on stream open" was invented by Naveen Bhoria (Plano, Texas), Kai Chirca (Dallas), Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas), Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas), Abhijeet A. Chachad (Plano, Texas) and Son Hung Tran (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to executing a plurality of instructions by a processor comprising receiving a first instruction configured to cause the processor to output a first data value to a first address in a first data cache, outputting, by the processor, the first data value to a second address...