ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,821, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory access tracing" was invented by Ankit Patel (Folsom, Calif.), Lidia Warnes (Roseville, Calif.), Donald L. Faw (Hillsboro, Ore.), Bassam N. Coury (Portland, Ore.), Douglas Carrigan (Chandler, Ariz.), Hugh Wilkinson (Newton, Mass.), Ananthan Ayyasamy (Beaverton, Ore.) and Michael F. Fallon (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to circuitry, when operational, configured to: store records of memory accesses to a memory device by at least one requester based on a configuration, wherein the configuration is to spec...