US Patent Issued to Xilinx on Sept. 9 for "Variable buffer size descriptor fetching for a multi-queue direct memory access system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,780, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Variable buffer size descriptor fetching for a multi-queue direct memory access system" was invented by Chandrasekhar S. Thyamagondlu (Saratoga, Calif.), Tao Yu (Campbell, Calif.), Chiranjeevi Sirandas (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nicholas Trank (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Descriptor fetch for a direct memory access system includes, in response to receiving a first data packet, fetching a plurality of descriptors including a first descriptor and a specified number of prefetched descriptors. The plurality of descriptors specify different buffer size...