ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,478, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for configuring base address registers" was invented by Qing Li (Shanghai) and Buheng Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a controller that generates a configuration base address register (BAR) allocation lookup table in a first memory, such as SRAM. The configuration BAR allocation lookup table includes at least one BAR configuration entry associated with each of a plurality of peripheral devices wherein each BAR configuration entry includes configuration data for configuring at least one corre...