US Patent Issued to ATI Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Address translation services buffer" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,684, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Address translation services buffer" was invented by Philip Ng (Toronto) and Vinay Patel (Stouffville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An address translation buffer or ATB is provided for emulating or implementing the PCIe (Peripheral Component Interface Express) ATS (Address Translation Services) protocol within a PCIe-compliant device. The ATB operates in place of (or in addition to) an address translation cache (ATC), but is implemented in firmware or hardware without requiring the robust set of resources associated with a permanent hardware cac...