ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,487, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"GDDR RDF/QAR accelerated swap sequences" was invented by Peter Callewaert (Eernegem, Belgium) and Dennis Trulli Jr. (Hudson, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "SQAR site and region swap sequences include a combination of full swap and half swap commands to avoid creating a cascaded R21 while reducing elongated RDF resume processing. This is accomplished by limiting the use of half swap commands to mirrors that do not have an RDF resume command in the affected swap sequence and that require half swap to avoid creation of a cascaded R21. Changing the repl...