US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 16 for "Programmable data storage memory hierarchy" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,178, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Programmable data storage memory hierarchy" was invented by Shaizeen Dilawarhusen Aga (Santa Clara, Calif.), Johnathan Robert Alsop (Seattle) and Nuwan S Jayasena (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Programmable data storage memory hierarchy techniques are described. In one example, a data storage system includes a memory hierarchy and a data movement controller. The memory hierarchy includes a hierarchical arrangement of a plurality of memory buffers. The data movement controller is configured to receive a data movement comman...