ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,429, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Endurance hints for tiered memory" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain) and Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and a controller coupled to the one or more substrates, the controller including circuitry to control access to persistent media, and manage an endurance of the persistent media based on one or more endurance hints from an external source. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed."
The patent was filed on Dec. 7, 2021, under Ap...