G06F 9/522
Barrier synchronisation
Official title: {Barrier synchronisation}
G06F9/522 (Barrier synchronisation) appears on 572 US grants and 670 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 140
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- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 54 | 61 |
| 2025 | 33 | 33 |
| 2026 | 38 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method for improving GPU efficiency via programmatic tests of synchronization primitive progress8 Sep 2026US 12,730,637 B2Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Queue management for task graphs8 Sep 2026US 12,730,670 B2Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Application programming interface to remove dependencies25 Aug 2026US 12,717,561 B1NVIDIA Corporation
- Hierarchical thread scheduling based on multi-parameter signal barriers25 Aug 2026US 12,717,582 B2Intel Corporation
- Method for processing task, processor, device and readable storage medium25 Aug 2026US 12,717,653 B2Kunlunxin Technology (Beijing) Company Limited
- Parallel thread synchronization8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310524 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Application programming interface to perform a scheduling policy1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300006 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Programmable stream triggered multithreading capable streaming dataflow deep learning accelerator27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252392 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Layered Concurrency Management13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236326 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Interface circuitry13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236385 A1Arm Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays and thread identifier values to determine processing behavior177US 7,861,060 B1NVIDIA Corporation · 2010
- Synchronisation of execution threads on a multi-threaded processor97US 8,286,180 B2Imagination Technologies Limited · 2012
- Synchronization of threads in a cooperative thread array93US 7,788,468 B1NVIDIA Corporation · 2010
- Barrier synchronization for distributed memory massively parallel processing systems80US 5,434,995 ACray Research, Inc. · 1995
- Load balancing in a distributed processing system77US 9,596,298 B1Google Inc. · 2017