US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on Feb. 24 for "Method and system for locality-preserving system memory address encoding" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,242, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and system for locality-preserving system memory address encoding" was invented by Jang Dae Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are provided in which the memory subsystem receives a range of system addresses. An address encoder of the memory subsystem encodes the system addresses to generate encoded system addresses. A first number of least significant bits (LSBs) subject to change in encoding each of the system addresses in the range is based on a lesser of a second number of trailing 0s in a binary represe...