ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,705, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Dynamically scalable and partitioned copy engine" was invented by Nilay Mistry (Bangalore, India), David Puffer (Tempe, Ariz.), Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.) and Hema Chand Nalluri (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate a dynamically scalable and partitioned copy engine is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising copy engine hardware circuitry to facilitate copying surface data in memory and comprising: a plurality of copy front-end hardware circuitry to generate a plurality of surface data sub-blocks, ...