ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,455, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Configurable memory provisioning" was invented by Qiong Cai (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provisioning portions of a memory subsystem of a computer system that has at least a first dimension and a second dimension, such that those portions are not used during normal operation. The apparatus includes a memory interface circuit having provisioning circuits performing different provisioning operations. The memory interface circuit is configured to receive a physical memory address, and output, based on provisioning information indicating a firs...