US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 16 for "Segmented non-contiguous reverse map table" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,057, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Segmented non-contiguous reverse map table" was invented by David Kaplan (Austin, Texas), Jelena Ilic (Austin, Texas), Nippon Raval (Markham, Canada) and Philip Ng (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device comprises a processor, a table walker, and a memory storing a segmented reverse map table in multiple non-contiguous portions of the memory. The table walker is configured to translate a virtual memory address specified by a memory access request to a physical memory address associa...