ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,605, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Data access control for dataflow computing systems" was invented by Xiaoning Nie (Neubiberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system including a data storage device coupled to and shared by first and second processing devices and controlled by a data access controller. The data access controller can receive a data access request from the first processing device to access a first number of data storage units of the data storage device. A current storage unit count represents a second number of data storage units occupied in ...