US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Address scrambling for memory bandwidth improvement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,407, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Address scrambling for memory bandwidth improvement" was invented by Patricio Kaplan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ron Diamant (San Jose, Calif.) and Sharukh Shahajahan Shaikh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An address having a set of address bits is received to access a memory device having a plurality of memory channels. The set of address bits may include an atomic address that indexes to an atomic data transfer unit, and an address offset that indexes into an offset in the atomic data transfer unit. At least a part of the atomic address is provid...