ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,554, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Address translation services to enable memory coherence" was invented by Hemayet Hossain (San Jose, Calif.), Wishwesh Anil Gandhi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Leroy Deming (Madison, Ala.), William Craig McKnight (Harvest, Ala.), Mark Hairgrove (San Jose, Calif.), Vikramjit Sethi (Austin, Texas) and Steven Edward Molnar (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first virtual address is translated into a first physical address using a first translation agent associated with a first I/O device of a system. The first physical address is associated with a...