US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "DMA control circuit with quality of service indications" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,068, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"DMA control circuit with quality of service indications" was invented by Brett D. George (Los Altos, Calif.), Rohit K. Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Do Kyung Kim (Austin, Texas) and Paul W. Glendenning (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving the handling of peripherals in a computer system, including through the use of a DMA control circuit that helps manage the flow of data between memory and the peripherals via an intermediate storage buffer. The DMA control circuit is configured to control timing of DMA transfers between sampl...