ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,043, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Inter-server memory pooling" was invented by Christopher Haywood (Cary, N.C.) and Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory allocation device for deployment within a host server computer includes control circuitry, a first interface to a local processing unit disposed within the host computer and local operating memory disposed within the host computer, and a second interface to a remote computer. The control circuitry allocates a first portion of the local memory to a first process executed by the local processing unit ...