ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,521, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Handling memory requests" was invented by Mark Landers (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Martin John Robinson (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter module handles memory requests issued by a cache (e.g. an on-chip cache), where these memory requests include memory addresses defined within a virtual memory space. The converter module receives these requests, issues each request with a transaction identifier and uses that identifier to track the status of the memory request. The converter module sen...