ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,923, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Identifying memory hotspots" was invented by Tony Brewer (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples, are methods, systems, machine readable mediums, memory devices, and memory controllers that detect memory hotspots. The system keeps a count of a number of memory accesses that were queued waiting for another memory access to that address to finish. The number of memory accesses may be compared to a hotspot criteria to determine one or more memory hotspots. These hotspots may be sent to a processor, which may store the memory h...