US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Efficient caching and queueing for per-allocation non-redundant metadata" (Oregon, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,689, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient caching and queueing for per-allocation non-redundant metadata" was invented by Yonghae Kim (Atlanta), David M. Durham (Beaverton, Ore.) and Michael LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes circuitry to receive a memory access request based on a memory address in a memory allocation of a program. The memory allocation is assigned to a slot of memory apportioned into a plurality of slots. The circuitry is to calculate an index based, at least in part, on whether a size of the slot exceeds a slot threshold size, and ...