ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,105, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for intermediate physical address (IPA) remapping and electronic device" was invented by Chin-Wen Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Nicholas Ching Hui Tang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intermediate physical address (IPA) remapping, applicable to a memory having multiple ranks are provided. The method includes the following steps. An extant mapping from IPAs to physical addresses (PAs) of the memory is monitored. A remapping from at least one IPA to at least one PA is executed to concentrate the PAs of the memory used by an appli...