US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on May 13 for "Sorting memory address requests for parallel memory access using input address match masks" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,924, issued on May 13, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Sorting memory address requests for parallel memory access using input address match masks" was invented by Luca Iuliano (Chesham, Great Britain), Simon Nield (Wendover, Great Britain) and Thomas Rose (Watford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus identifies a set of M output memory addresses from a larger set of N input memory addresses containing at least one non-unique memory address. A comparator block performs comparisons of memory addresses from a set of N input memory addresses to generate a binary classifica...