US Patent Issued to SMART Modular Technologies on April 14 for "Selective backup to persistent memory for volatile memory" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,102, issued on April 14, was assigned to SMART Modular Technologies Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Selective backup to persistent memory for volatile memory" was invented by Andrew Mills (Coto de Caza, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for selective backup to persistent memory from volatile memory are disclosed. In one aspect, a memory controller includes a detection circuit that detects an address for a memory access and determines a range into which that address falls. The memory controller also includes a touched map that is configured to store an indication as to what areas (or ranges) of memory have been access...