ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,930, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Input/output device operational modes for a system with memory pools" was invented by Pavel Zaykov (Brno, Czech Republic) and Larry James Miller (Black Canyon City, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of computing systems that include I/O device(s) that respect an existing hardware resource partitioning in a modern computing platform are provided. The computing systems include at least one CPU having multiple cores and one or more CPU caches. The computing system also includes a main memory having locations, where each location maps to ...