ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,961, issued on March 18, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Staging memory access requests" was invented by James R. Magro (Austin, Texas), Kedarnath Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India), Ravindra N. Bhargava (Austin, Texas) and Guanhao Shen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Staging memory access requests includes receiving a memory access request directed to Dynamic Random Access Memory; storing the memory access request in a staging buffer; and moving the memory access request from the staging buffer to a command queue."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2019, under Application No. 16/728,11...