ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,772, issued on June 9, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware latency monitoring for memory device input/output requests" was invented by Shridhar Rasal (Pune, India), Oren Duer (Kohav Yair, Israel), Aviv Kfir (Nili, Israel) and Liron Mula (Hertzlia, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a hardware circuitry having a device coupled with one or more external memory devices. The device is to detect an input/output (I/O) request associated with an external memory device of the one or more external memory devices. The device is to record a first timestamp in response to detecting the I/O request tr...