ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,987, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Data processing apparatus and method using direct memory access" was invented by Won-Jo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunsoo Kim (Bucheon-si, South Korea) and Seungwon Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The data processing apparatus may include a host core configured to generate a control message to control a direct memory access (DMA), the DMA configured to generate a memory request based on the control message, a memory controller configured to generate a memo...