ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,400, issued on March 11, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Systems and methods for memory bandwidth allocation" was invented by Lide Duan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bowen Huang (New Haven, Conn.), Qichen Zhang (Shanghai), Shengcheng Wang (Shanghai), Yen-Kuang Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hongzhong Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for allocating memory bandwidth of multiple CPU cores in a server includes: receiving an access request to a last level cache (LLC) shared by the multiple CPU cores in the server, the access request being sent from a core with a priva...