US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on May 6 for "Method and apparatus for managing memory" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,092, issued on May 6, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for managing memory" was invented by Lu Lu (Beijing), Anthony Asaro (Markham, Canada) and Yinan Jiang (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of managing memory includes storing a first memory page at a shared memory location in response to the first memory page including data shared between a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine. A second memory page is stored at a memory location unique to the first virtual machine in response to the se...