ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,490, issued on April 7, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Memory management using a register" was invented by Jack H. Choquette (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephen Anthony Bernard Jones (San Francisco), Maciej Piotr Tyrlik (Durham, N.C.), Harold Carter Edwards (Campbell, Calif.) and Manan Patel (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first request to allocate one or more memory blocks of a first plurality of memory blocks associated with a first memory is received by a processing device. A consecutive set of a first portion of bits of a first register with a first logical state is identified. The first logical ...