ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,537, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method to minimize hot/cold page detection overhead on running workloads" was invented by Francois Dugast (Karlsruhe, Germany), Durgesh Srivastava (Cupertino, Calif.), Sujoy Sen (Beaverton, Ore.), Lidia Warnes (Roseville, Calif.), Thomas E. Willis (Redwood City, Calif.) and Bassam N. Coury (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to minimize hot/cold page detection overhead on running workloads. A page meta data structure is populated with meta data associated with memory pages in one or more far memory tier. In conjunction with on...