ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,684, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Dynamic repartition of memory physical address mapping" was invented by Joseph L. Greathouse (Austin, Texas), Alan D. Smith (Austin, Texas), Francisco L. Duran (Clearwater, Fla.), Felix Kuehling (Markham, Canada) and Anthony Asaro (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamic repartitioning of physical memory address mapping involve relocating data stored at one or more physical memory locations of one or more memory devices to another memory device or mass storage devi...