US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 2 for "Enhanced page information co-processor" (Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,942, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced page information co-processor" was invented by Steven Raasch (Boxborough, Mass.) and Andrew G. Kegel (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes a primary processor and a co-processor. The primary processor is couplable to a memory subsystem having at least one memory and operating to execute system software employing memory address translations based on one or more page tables stored in the memory subsystem. The co-processor is likewise couplable to the memory subsystem and operates to perform iteration...