ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,479, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Simultaneous distributed and non-distributed address maps and routing protocols in a computing system" was invented by Debajit Bhattacharya (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Allen Parker (San Jose, Calif.) and Kun Fang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include techniques for performing memory operations in a computing system. A processing unit in the computing system performs memory operations by accessing memory using two concurrent memory address maps (AMAPs). The processing unit access memory via a first fine-grain distributed...