US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Nov. 4 for "Reducing power consumption by using a different memory chip for background processing" (Polish, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,666, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Reducing power consumption by using a different memory chip for background processing" was invented by Gabriel Zvi BenHanokh (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Adam Kupczyk (Tulce, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power consumption can be reduced by using a different memory chip for background processing. For example, a computing device can determine that a first application executing on a device complies with an application programming interface (API) for using a smaller dynamic access memory (DRAM) chip of the device that is smaller and consumes less power than a main DR...