ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,324, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for managing data in stacked DRAMs" was invented by Karthik Rao (Austin, Texas) and Leonardo De Paula Rosa Piga (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus manage data in memories disposed in a stacked relation with respect to one or more processors. The method includes receiving at least one hint indicating future processor usage of a software component, where the future processor usage is indicative of future usage of the one or more processors when executing the software component or a code sect...