ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,530, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Associatively indexed circular buffer" was invented by Lawrence Said (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an associatively indexed circular buffer (ACB). The ACB may be viewed as a dynamically allocatable memory structure that offers in-order data access (say, first-in-first-out, or "FIFO") or random order data access at a fixed, relatively low latency. The ACB includes a data store of non-contiguous storage. To manage the pushing of data to, and popping data from, the data store, the ACB includes a contiguo...