ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,593, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Global memory segmentation conversion" was invented by Kaustubh Sahasrabudhe (Westborough, Mass.), Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.) and Malak Alshawabkeh (Franklin, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shared global memory segmentation conversion process optimizes conversion of shared Global Memory (GM) in connection with changes to a global memory segmentation policy. When a policy region is to be reduced in size, the GM banks of the policy region are ranked and one or more of the lowest performing GM banks in the policy region are selected to be moved...