ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,255, issued on July 29, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for sharing memory across clusters of directly connected nodes" was invented by Alexander J. Branover (Boxborough, Mass.), Mahesh UdayKumar Wagh (Bellevue, Wash.), Francisco L. Duran (Austin, Texas) and Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system comprises a cluster of nodes that are communicatively coupled to one another via at least one direct link and collectively include a plurality of memory devices. The exemplary system also comprises at least one system memory...