US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 17 for "Vector in restricted memory to track remote copies" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,067, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vector in restricted memory to track remote copies" was invented by Avery Francois (East Schodack, N.Y.), Jie Zheng (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Robert J Sonnelitter III (Bedford Hills, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first processor chip includes one or more processor cores, one or more cache memories, and a restricted-access memory storing a remote access vector configured to track copies of data portions that are stored in a main memory. The remote access vector includes multiple bits. Each bit of the multiple bits corresponds respec...