US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 11 for "Direct memory access data transfers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,195, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Direct memory access data transfers" was invented by Ahmad Itani (San Jose, Calif.) and Jagadeesh Sankaran (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed that relate to linking and performing direct memory access (DMA) transfers. In one example, an accelerator can generate data associated with a descriptor that represents multiple DMA transfers associated with a plurality of DMA transfer types. The accelerator can provide the data associated with the descriptor to a device (or group of devices) involved ...