US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on June 24 for "Apparatus and methods for direct co-processor access to prestored file system data in a non-volatile memory system" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,086, issued on June 24, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for direct co-processor access to prestored file system data in a non-volatile memory system" was invented by Paul Blinzer (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Livingstain Ziman (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a co-processor that provides process operations for a first processor, such as a host processor, that executes one or more applications. The co-processor issues a data load request to a request command queue controlled by a non-volatile memory system, that loads a subset of prestored data ...