US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 15 for "Approach for providing indirect addressing in memory modules" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,912, issued on July 15, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Approach for providing indirect addressing in memory modules" was invented by Matthew R. Poremba (Bellevue, Wash.), Alexandru Dutu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sooraj Puthoor (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach provides indirect addressing support for PIM. Indirect PIM commands include address translation information that allows memory modules to perform indirect addressing. Processing logic in a memory module processes an indirect PIM command retrieves, from a first memory location, a virtual address of a second memory location...