ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,301, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for altering the path of data movement for large-sized memory transactions" was invented by Hithesh Hassan Lepaksha (Hyderabad, India), Darshan Kumar Nandanwar (Bangalore, India) and Sharath Kumar Nagilla (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reducing data movement when performing large-sized memory transactions in a memory hierarchy are provided. For certain preselected types of large-size memory transactions, such as memset and memcopy operations, for example, logic of the processor determines whether the type o...