ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,695, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Reserved persistent random access memory" was invented by Ankit Singh (Bangalore, India), Shrikant U. Hallur (Bangalore, India) and Naveen Awasthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing use and access to memory installed within a data processing system are disclosed. Primary memory (e.g., RAM such as DRAM, SRAM, or the like) that is traditionally non-persistent (e.g., volatile) is configured by a management entity hosted within the data processing system to become persistent (e.g., pseudo-persistent/pseudo non-vol...