ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,808, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for task relocation based on memory access patterns" was invented by Rolf Riesen (Forest Grove, Ore.), Robert Wisniewski (Ossining, N.Y.) and Rajesh Poornachandran (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to relocate a compute thread, the apparatus comprising control circuitry to maintain a location of a plurality of domain access counters associated with a plurality of compute-memory domains for a first compute thread, and an execution monitor to set a first ...