ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,135, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Direct memory access operations" was invented by Vishal Bhushan (Patiala, India), Ranjith Srinivas A B (Kolar, India) and Vasantha Kumar Bandur Puttappa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a system memory management unit may receive, from a client device, a request associated with a memory device operation. The system memory management unit may allocate, based at least in part on the request from the client device, one or more unused hardware resources of the system memory management unit for a direct memory access operation. In some aspec...