US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on April 7 for "Distributed direct memory operations having DMA engine with frontend and selected backend according to affinity identified based on selected physical address space" (Canadian, Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,663, issued on April 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Distributed direct memory operations having DMA engine with frontend and selected backend according to affinity identified based on selected physical address space" was invented by Dong HaiKun (Beijing), Xia Fang (Shanghai), Ma XiaoJing (Shanghai), Huang ZengRong (Shanghai), Philip Ng (Markham, Canada), Alexander Kaganov (Markham, Canada), Anthony Asaro (Markham, Canada), Chen Yong (Shanghai) and Wang LingLing (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes a direct memory...