US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Managing access to memory by determining virtual addresses in dependence on access request type" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,056, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Managing access to memory by determining virtual addresses in dependence on access request type" was invented by Robert Brigg (Watford, Great Britain) and Lorenzo Belli (Watford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing access to a physical memory formed of n memory page frames using a set of virtual address spaces having n virtual address spaces each formed of a plurality p of contiguous memory pages. The method includes receiving a write request to write a block of data to a virtual address within a virtua...