US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Memory access engine" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,562, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Memory access engine" was invented by Omar Fakhri Ahmed (Markham, Canada), Norman Vernon Douglas Stewart (Markham, Canada), Mihir Shaileshbhai Doctor (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jason Todd Arbaugh (Austin, Texas), Milind Baburao Kamble (Austin, Texas), Philip Ng (Markham, Canada) and Xiaojian Liu (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for servicing a memory request is disclosed. The technique includes obtaining permissions associated with a source and a destination specified by the memor...