ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,109, issued on June 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Input/output (I/O) register reflected in CPU memory" was invented by Jonathan Cohen (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Said Bshara (Tira, Israel), Leah Shalev (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Erez Izenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Rotem Shaanan (Sal'it, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to reduce the latency in accessing an input/output (I/O) hardware register by software executing on a central processing unit (CPU). The hardware register is located in a controller coupled to the CPU via an I/O bus. The CPU software can send a command to the...