US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on May 12 for "Technique for power optimized memory pools" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,802, issued on May 12, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Technique for power optimized memory pools" was invented by Jean Francois Deschenes (Ste-Marthe-sur-le-lac, Canada) and Cedric Migliorini (Roxoboro, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for allocating blocks from a memory pool is disclosed. The memory is made up of a plurality of banks, wherein the power to each is independently controlled. Several linked lists are used to ensure that blocks are always allocated from the bank with the fewer free blocks. In this way, the possibility of having banks where all of their blocks are unall...