US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Scatter and gather streaming data through a circular FIFO" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,734, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Scatter and gather streaming data through a circular FIFO" was invented by Marc A. Schaub (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Roy G. Moss (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing scatter and gather direct memory access (DMA) streaming through a circular buffer are described. A system includes a circular buffer, producer DMA engine, and consumer DMA engine. After the producer DMA engine writes or skips over a given data chunk of a first frame to the buffer, the producer DMA engine sends an updated write pointer to the...