ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,701, issued on March 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Evenly distributing hierarchical binary hashes for strided workloads" was invented by William Zorn (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer memory system comprising a plurality of memory banks or other memory structures and circuitry configured to implement a hash function that produces output values that evenly distribute strided memory accesses across the plurality of memory structures. The memory banks can be cache memory banks that may include a plurality of cache lines, cache sets, or cache ways. The memory banks can ...